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 ...

Fifty days after Easter we celebrate Pentecost Sunday (Pentecost is Greek for “50th day”), commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. For this reason, Pentecost is also known as the ...

Some Protestants still believe that Roman Catholics do not read the Bible and subordinate Holy Scripture to an amorphous thing called “tradition”­revelation which is not found in Scripture but has ...

Father Joshua J. Whitfield provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 3, 2026.

If you ask a Christian they will say there are key differences between the Christian and Catholic faiths. And, there is right down to the books included in each of their bibles. It can be the deal ...

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 ...

With the Spanish-speaking Catholic community in the United States growing exponentially, Ascension is proud to offer the newly-released “The Great Adventure Catholic Bible, Spanish Edition” to ...

An evangelical worshipper holds a Bible during prayer at Manantial Church in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. (Credit: AP Photo/Fernando Vergara.) Listen ROME – It’s no mystery that ...

The Holy Cross professor who is the author of controversial opinions on the Gospel of John is an ordained Presbyterian minister and not a Catholic, and so may not adhere to the same rigid standards of ...