In his General Audience message on Feb 4., Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican ...

In the spiritual life, we are called to engage our bodies and spiritual souls. The different prayer forms of the Church are meant to help and guide us in this process. We cannot separate our bodies ...

The Bible can be many things: a relationship guide, a childrearing manual, a home-building handbook and a textbook. The Holy Scriptures hold many of the answers to life's problems because the holy ...

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Randy Rosenthal has a master’s in theological studies from Harvard University, where he teaches writing. We usually think of scripture as a written text, part of a closed canon, as sacrosanct, as ...

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church. If the Bible is the most-published book in ...

A MAN from Kota in Rajasthan residing here has claimed an incredible feat. Shivlahri Soni has compiled the entire text of religious scriptures such as Durga Chalisa and Hanuman Chalisa on a space as ...

Karen Armstrong’s book, The Lost Art of Scripture, studies the role and the place of holy texts — at best seen as negligible, at worst a manipulative tool for justifying violence and fundamentalism — ...

How should we approach seemingly inconsistent messages in sacred texts? Religious types insist that contradictions in sacred scriptures are not cardinal flaws. They blame it on artistic classification ...