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 ...

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

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 26, 2026.

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) — With Christmas season over, Christians move into what the church refers to as “Ordinary Time.” This is the time outside of Christmas season, Lent and Easter season. “Ordinary” in English means ...

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 ...

“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 ...

(RNS) It's a mistake to dismiss the criticism Sister Bauer has received as coming from “liberals.” As a Catholic theologian, I’m committed to a set of traditions and teachings that make it clear it’s ...

I have always believed that to be a Catholic, you need faith. It's what Jesus had: the faith to question the status quo, to seek a different way, to share one's gifts to better the community. Jesus ...