Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

Pope Francis issued a clarion call to U.S. Catholics Feb. 10 to reject the anti-immigrant narrative of the Trump ...

In the words of Elizabeth Johnson, “The historical Jesus has become the new factor in Roman Catholic christology, one of the clearest results of the interfacing of systematic thought with biblical ...

(OSV News) — For every disciple to truly become “the salt of the earth and the light of the world” — that is the goal of “I ...

Early Christian preachers such as the Apostle Paul brought the gospel about Jesus Christ to an empire already crammed full of deities. The citizens of the Roman empire and, within certain limits ...

“As our priest said ‘Jesus took the hit for us ... a crazed man destroyed a framed photo of Pope Francis at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Astoria — before spreading paint thinner ...

Immigration is a topic that evokes very strong emotions in many people. I write not as an expert on immigration, or from a political perspective, but rather as a fellow ...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre ... and allows the [Catholic] Church to carry on the saving mission of Jesus Christ,” a spokesperson for the diocese added.