By the Waters of Babylon
On the prophet Jeremiah's words to the Jews exiled to Babylon, and what those words might mean for us.
Six for Six
Where did the Church get the idea that what looks like bread and wine in the Eucharist is actually the Body and Blood of Jesus? Catholics can turn to the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John for the answers.
Why Maccabees?
The Book of Second Maccabees tells of pious Jews praying for the dead, but did you also know that the book contains the most explicit affirmations in the Old Testament of Creatio ex Nihilo, the Intercession of the Saints and of the Resurrection of the Body?
The Senses of Sacred Scripture
The four senses of Sacred Scripture. The Church proposes four ways to appropriate the spiritual gifts of the Scriptures to our lives.
Jesus and the Divine Name
The Church noticed long ago that St. John remarkably captures Jesus using the phrase “I am”, either with a predicate noun or without, twenty-three times, almost twice as many times as the other three gospels combined, in any context.
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
The Church often cites verses from the eleventh chapter of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah as the source of its traditional list of the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Modern Polish Martyrs: Family To Be Beatified, Including Unborn Child
A married Polish couple, who were killed with their children and unborn baby by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family, will be declared worthy of veneration by the Catholic Church this year.
The Tent of Meeting
Thirteen out of forty chapters of the Book of Exodus concern the “Tent of Meeting” and the ritual worship associated with it – that’s one third of the entire book!