During his general audience on July 2, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he was beginning a new series of catecheses devoted to St. Paul at the beginning of a special Pauline Year within the Catholic ...

Saint Paul made two missionary journeys to Greece, bringing Christianity to its people; from there, and it then spread ...

In the presence of 17,000 people at St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the necessity of the Resurrection “in the mystery of salvation” to understand the teaching of St. Paul. For Paul, ...

“Paul: A Biography” isn’t the first book Bible scholar N.T. Wright has written about Paul, the apostle responsible for so many of the letters in the New Testament. He also penned “Paul,” “Paul and the ...

The end of Saint Paul’s earthly life and his ongoing legacy was the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI, who concluded his series of teachings on St. Paul today. The Holy Father reflected on St. Paul’s ...

In this compulsively readable exploration of the tangled world of Christian origins, Tabor (The Jesus Dynasty) vividly recreates the frenetic and fraught attempts by the earliest followers of Jesus to ...

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Catholics point to passages such as Matthew 16:18–19, where Jesus tells Peter, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build ...

June 29 marks the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The New Testament, of course, portrays Peter as a Galilean Jew, a fisherman, who became an early disciple of Jesus. He is remembered as being foremost ...