Though we had just met in my first week on the job, Sister Annie arrived unannounced and unsurprisingly at the moment I ...

Protestants deny that good works can be meritorious (i.e., rewarded by God), but St. Augustine taught that our merit was merely God “crowning his own gifts.” That’s what the Catholic Church teaches.

The second is I believe Rabbi Gamaliel is an unsung hero. He impacted at least eight New Testament books by Jesus’s original ...

For more on this, read “What Are the Apocryphal Books and Do They Belong in the Bible?” The Bible collects all the texts that meet canonical tests. It includes the Old Testament books that Jesus ...