St. Peter was a fisherman. Fishing nets and tilapia were his daily reality. Born without distinction in a backwater of the Roman Empire, he presumably would have lived and died in total obscurity, had ...

Although many, if not most, scholars of religion today disagree, it's common to hear Catholics say that Jesus started their church -- and maybe even came for the purpose of starting it. Among ...

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June 29 marks the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The New Testament, of course, portrays Peter as a Galilean Jew, a fisherman, who became an early disciple of Jesus. He is remembered as being foremost ...

This is Italian artist Raphael’s depiction of the Apostle Paul preaching in Athens during his second missionary journey. Raphael lived from 1483-1520. (Courtesy Photo) Appointed by Jesus as the ...

This is a fascinating question because Paul, by all appearances, was the least likely person to pioneer early Christianity's missionary efforts. He was born a Jew in Tarsus but raised and educated in ...

During the last several weeks when we attended the graduations of our children and grandchildren, are we aware that all of us are enrolled in a university? We can call it the “University of Adversity.

The Apostle Paul is often considered to be the most important person — after Jesus — in the history of Christianity. Of the 27 books in the New Testament of the Bible, 13 are attributed to Paul, and ...

'The Passion of the Christ' star Jim Caviezel returns to faith-based cinema for this apocryphal tale of Paul's final days in prison, complete with flashbacks to the more compelling part of his life.