I watched a documentary this week where Nicky Gumbel, an English Anglican Priest at Holy Trinity Brompton church in London, told his story about how he placed his faith in Jesus in 1974. In it he ...

Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. Our Bible study this Christmas Sunday concludes the “reason for the season” mini-series. We began with “Why Simeon ...

In about 178 AD, a pagan named Celsus wrote a scathing denouncement of Christianity, calling believers of Jesus Christ “the most uneducated and vulgar persons.” For a high-minded Greco-Roman scholar, ...

With resounding hope, the prophet Isaiah foretold the birth of the messiah approximately 700 years before Jesus was born. “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

For the Most Recent in 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' click on Big Pulpit. Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict ...

Honestly, I am always moved when reading passages in which God is quoted, speaking directly to His "chosen people" about who ...

For the last four years astronomers have been studying a massive black hole with a total mass greater than 800 million suns. Scientists estimate the black hole is over 13 billion light years away.

Every Christmas, a storm of controversy ignites over the accurate date of Jesus’ birth. Fueled by sensationalist media and a public eager to speculate, these debates churn out myths and historical ...

First, three recent snapshots from my life. One evening this fall, my college-aged daughter looked up from her homework and asked, “If God really cares about expressing solidarity with the least ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...