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Scientists have discovered a hidden chapter of the Bible dating back nearly 1,500 years in an ancient Vatican manuscript. The ...

The new section of text is part of the Old Syriac version of the Bible, which is a translation of the Gospels into the Syriac ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. was honored on Jan. 20. In one of his sermons he said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he ...

He was a warrior so large that his name is now a byword for immense size. But just how big was Goliath the biblical giant in ...

Within hours of taking office, Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders that together signal a nation determined to ...

For many of us, the most famous giant from the Bible is Goliath. Goliath, who hailed from the city of Gath, was the ...

In the Bible, the book of Samuel tells of a great battle between the armies of the Philistines and the Israelites. It ...

The first is called the liturgy of the Word and the second the Eucharistic liturgy. In the first part a passage from the ...

The Church celebrates the Sunday of the Word of God this week, and Msgr. Joseph Prior shows how the Scriptures are integral to every Mass. In the words of the Bible, God mysteriously speaks to us in ...

Some Evangelical pastors view President Donald Trump as a modern-day messiah or anointed figure, likening him to the Biblical ...

A: The name Mary has a variety of spellings depending on the language used in different versions or translations of the Bible. The Mother of Jesus is called: Myriam in the Hebrew Old Testament Maryam ...