When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the first pope to take the name Francis, it wasn’t a symbolic flourish, it was a solemn ...

“Today, the Church and the world have lost a true shepherd of souls,” McElroy said in a statement from his new home in ...

Thanks to Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, and its film adaptation, many people think that the books that constitute ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...

Leading his first Easter Sunday Mass as Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the Resurrection of ...

The first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church died on Monday after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest.

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them ...

This is Latin for “having had mercy and choosing him” — a phrase that Francis chose as his motto when he was elevated to ...

And, as such, it sets the pattern for all the later gospel traditions. We know that both Matthew and Luke used Mark, as a source in their composition and it's also probable that even John knew ...

Coerver praised Francis's embodiment of Gospel values and focus on the marginalized ... in welcoming the stranger we are welcoming Christ (Matthew 25:35). He worked for the conversion of hearts ...

The Orthodox Patriarchate condemned the treatment of worshippers by police, citing the Gospel of Matthew and the verse "blessed are the peacemakers" in its criticism. "The Orthodox Patriarchate of ...

The Gospel of Luke is the first volume of Luke ... Luke gives a different version of the Beatitudes than Matthew (6:20-23). In Luke, we also get the "woes" of Jesus (6:24-26; 11:42-52).