In 1994, just before she entered religious life at a Carmelite monastery in Baltimore, Sue Houchins attended a party at a friend’s house. On the friend’s refrigerator was a postcard depicting a black ...

More than 4,000 people gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall to hear Pope Benedict XVI deliver his continuing series of teachings on St. Paul, which today focused on the Apostle’s teaching about ...

LYNDALL BERGER, at sixteen, wrote to her parents for permission to be confirmed. “Are you mad?” Sidney’s gaze was a pair of outspread arms, stopping his wife short whichever way she might turn. “Well, ...

“Is that wedding music I hear” was the opening line of a Top 40 gospel song a few years ago. “There’s a heavenly preparation for the celebration …,” the song goes on, adding that “The bride is adorned ...

If the document is real, and Jesus did in fact have a wife, the implications could be tremendous, the article says: the discovery could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married, whether Mary ...

First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today. By Peter Wehner Contributing Opinion Writer “Get used to different.” ...

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