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On Jan. 26, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, close companions of the Apostle Paul and bishops of the Catholic Church in its earliest days.

The apostle Paul has been the subject of at least three ... Scholars agree that 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus were probably written by one of Paul’s followers and attributed to him, Crossan said.

I went to see “Paul, Apostle of Christ”—the recently released film about the New Testament’s hardest-traveling Christian missionary—with low expectations. Faith-based films have fared ...

in “Paul, Apostle of Christ.” | AFFIRM FILMS Share Some 14 years after Jim Caviezel poured heart and soul into his portrayal of Jesus in the brutal and powerful “The Passion of the Christ ...

The Apostle St. Paul instructs Titus, the Bishop of Crete, in his duty towards heretics, saying, that a man who persists in his heresy, after the first and second admonition, shall be rejected but ...

Nevertheless, polygamists were barred from leadership in the New Testament church (see 1 Timothy 3:2; Titus 1:6). The bottom line? The Apostle Paul would never have allowed a serial adulterer like ...

Eighty-seven years later, Apostle Paul was travelling on an Egyptian grain ... general who later befriended Vespasian and his son Titus. He wrote extensively on Jewish and Roman history and ...