The 13 Pauline Epistles make up the most books contributed by a single author to the New Testament — although scholars ...
In addition to St. Francis de Sales, there's Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Catholic Carmelite friar ... Brandsma was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1985 and elevated to sainthood by Pope Francis in 2022.
THE “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, a Reader in the Church of England, was covered up by ...
Titus 3:3-5 Once again the Catholic Church is ... An early example is St. Paul’s Epistle to Philemon. St. Paul appears to tolerate slavery, but he also warned slave masters that they too have ...
Titus 2:13-14 For most Catholic Christians ... This mystery is called the Incarnation - God becoming man (Gal 4:4). As St. Paul writes: In Christ the fullness of Deity resides in bodily form.
Those are their functions. That’s why when Paul describes the qualifications for elders in his first letter to Timothy and his letter to Titus, he says two things: they should be able to teach us from ...
Our late Queen famously once said ‘recollections may vary’. Ever the diplomat. Our current Archbishop was known to be a huge ...
Most of the New Testament information that we have about the gifts of the Spirit (Greek charismata) comes from Paul’s letters to the Corinthian church ... We find this in his epistles to Timothy and ...
Letter writing is a lost art in the digital age––but not for people in prison, where the daily mail is still an occasion. I ...
The Polish pope, canonized by Francis in 2014, demonstrated throughout his life that faith and peaceful resistance could ...
Paul is not merely calling for toleration, for enduring undesirable behavior for as long as one is able. Toleration can only ...