The religious folks called the Pharisees in the time of Jesus were offended ... heard Jesus was eating there and came with an alabaster jar full of perfume. She stood behind Jesus at his feet weeping ...
Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...
And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. He ordered them not to ...
The Gospel passage today is Luke’s version of the beatitudes. It is critical to understand that beatitude is not something we ...
The whole semantic field of 'tool' and 'instrument' is fraught with negative moral connotations. St. Ignatius’ writings , however, show a different tendency. There, 'instrument' both serves as a ...
The question is: what happened in the land of Israel and Judah in the few centuries leading up to the time of Jesus? Herod the Great, a military general and astute politician, was a complex man.