Both Hezekiah and Josiah are identified as paternal grandfathers of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. The second book of Kings describes Hezekiah’s suppression of pagan places of worship ...

The Holy Father Pope Francis speaks often about the peripheries (EG 20). The concept of the peripheries and the Church’s mission to them, however, is nothing new. In fact, it is very, very ancient.

CHRISTIAN PARTICIPATION IN PAGAN CULTURE When we hear of pagans claiming ... we now may tend to think of that as reflecting the gospel stories of Jesus of the lost sheep or Jesus as the good ...

We have pagan catacombs, Jewish catacombs ... whole scenes of the family of Jesus or images from gospel stories or stories from the Hebrew Scriptures or the symbol of the orans and the good ...