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 demand rises for heirloom-quality editions, Catholic publishers are investing in beautifully crafted Bibles that aim to unite Scripture, art and devotion.
At a Catholic Bible study I used to attend in my hometown we were discussing the scripture readings for the following Sunday ...
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 ...
A religious educator with decades of experience, hired to write Scripture commentaries for a liturgy training sourcebook, had her writing pulled from the book after the publisher learned that she had ...
Like many good Catholics, I had never read the whole Bible. In 13 years of Catholic grammar and high schools, I heard the big texts, mostly from the Gospels: Parables, the Passion, the Sermon on the ...
“St. Jerome,” from the workshop of Marinus van Reymerswaele. (Erik Cornelius/Sweden Nationalmuseum, via Wikimedia) St. Jerome, whose feast day is Sept. 30, is a giant in the intellectual history of ...