Several experts said this week that the statements by Jose Saramago about the Bible, which he called “a manual of bad customs, a catalogue of cruelties,” should lead the Church to value biblical ...

Please fill in the blank: “Our Father who art in heaven ____ be thy name.” This month, that question came up on the television gameshow “Jeopardy!” and none of the otherwise smart contestants could ...

Greg Clark has written in the Public Forum many times that he is an atheist. He comes off very bitter and angry to me. He also shows his ignorance of scripture. Although many men are very prideful and ...

A key issue in the Fundamentalist-Modernist debates of the last century has now resurfaced. The 2025 State of the Bible Survey revealed the astonishing fact that there are more Americans (and ...

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” as St. Jerome said, and the hope for any Eucharistic renewal among Catholics in the U.S. depends squarely on them knowing Jesus Christ in the word so ...

The Bible is one of the most beloved books in America. Yet it is also one of the most misused, misinterpreted and misunderstood books in this country, according to the Rev. Jim Keck, senior pastor at ...

How could Scripture possibly apply to our daily life? Sadly, many think of Scripture as an outdated and unhistorical fiction that has little to do with the world or even the faith. Jesus’ words can be ...

SAN FRANCISCO — “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ,” said St. Jerome. If that’s true, then lots of Catholics are getting to know Christ very well indeed. In the past year, nearly ...

As I read the Jan. 25 op editorial by Keltner Locke justifying why the Presbyterian Church (USA) had sanctioned homosexual marriage, I nearly burned out my mental keyboard and memory files ...

When you’re about the only white man in a sea of black faces, you learn strange things. A dispatch from the Hampton Ministers’ Conference. Yesterday I saw a doctrine. I'm at the annual Hampton ...