(RNS) — Whether you follow the Apostle Paul’s injunction or not, there’s a long-standing tradition to back you up.

The Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins Jan. 18, takes place each year in the days leading up to the ...

The Bible is filled with brave and courageous women. Deborah, the judge who fought a war to protect her people. The widow ...

THAT’S a verse from the Second Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (5,19), sometimes used as the Gospel Acclamation in some ...

Of course, this calls for abandoning all other grounds for “salvation” and to seek eternal life in Christ alone, Jesus made this abundantly clear when He declared in John 14:6 , “I am the way, and the ...

Ghana-based Sister Mary T Barron has been appointed to role within the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue ...

Researchers at The Catholic Project set out to determine how many priests are leaving ministry and what can be done to ...

Now, so the theory goes, we are at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which has been variously estimated to have begun in 1904 or 1933 or more recently … and is held to be a sort of new spiritual ...

A companion verse comes to mind. The apostle Peter, Paul’s friend, also was well-acquainted with numerous trials and tribulations. Nevertheless, he could write, “Cast all your anxiety on Him because ...

I . PRECIOUS AND BELOVED IN THE LORD, we then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that this year ye receive not ...

Twentieth-century pastor, philosopher, mystic, theologian and civil rights leader Howard Thurman retrieved Royce’s idea of ...

Through the patriarchs, the chosen people of God were living and walking in the light of God. Even when they were in Egypt, when the Lord sent the plagues upon Pharaoh, when the entire Egypt was ...