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 ...

ROME — In preparation for the Sunday of the Word of God Jan. 24, the Vatican issued recommendations for the day as well as reminders on respecting the sacred Scriptures. For example, liturgical books ...

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 ...

Readings: Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 She is a famous television character, instantly recognized by baby boomers. She rose to lasting fame without ever saying ...

We’ve compiled a list of forthcoming devotionals—daily readings of Bible passages paired with inspirational reflections—and there’s something here for everyone. For Lent and Advent At this time of ...

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 ...

Marianna Mayer adds to her list of picture book reference works about biblical themes with the beautifully designed Remembering the Prophets of Sacred Scripture. Elegantly printed with red and gold ...

While reading the Bible may be associated with Protestantism in the minds of some, love of Scripture is at the core of the Catholic Church, said the apostolic nuncio to the United States. "The love ...

In a Nation essay this year about the wave of successful books vaunting atheism, critic Daniel Lazare wrote the following: For a long time, religion had been doing quite nicely as a kind of minor ...

To write of the Holy Spirit is to write of God, as the ecumenical creeds affirm; to write of his works is to write of the action of God through all of human history (he “convicts the world of sin, ...