“Have you ever thought of putting together an essential reading list for Catholics?” A friend asked me that question recently and the answer is: Yes, but it’s impossible to do so. The reason it’s ...
How does a Catholic read the Bible? I certainly can’t speak for all Catholics, but I can speak a little to the Catholic tradition. And the best explicator of that tradition in recent decades was, in ...
Picture Bibles are for little kids, a collection of stories from the Bible told in very simple language. Children’s Bibles ...
If you have a popular Protestant translation of the Bible, like the King James Version, you will see that there are 39 books that make up the Old Testament. If you were to pick up a Catholic Bible, ...
While looking at the readings on the fifth Sunday of Lent as I prepared for our weekly Scripture discussion group, I started with the selection from Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Here's what I read: ...
The study, titled “Bible Across America,” is set to begin Nov. 5 and aims to gather Catholics “around God’s word to prayerfully study Scripture.” ...
Before my first year teaching in the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) program at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, my community of seven teachers in Jacksonville, Florida, were asked to ...