“There is no documented revelation related to the origin of the priesthood and temple restriction,” the new article states.

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

Every Catholic Church throughout the world is another Bethlehem ... we encounter Christ – body, blood, soul and divinity – in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is Jesus Christ himself, truly ...

Now, however, I can put some bones to the body of this prominent figure in ... as timely at Christmas as this charts the story of Jesus from Bethlehem to Golgotha, outside the walls of Jerusalem ...

standing by the cross of Jesus, was his mother.'" 24 "Our Lady, a full participant in the work of our salvation, fol­lows in the footsteps of her son: the poverty of Bethlehem, the everyday work ...

Upon arriving in Bethlehem, Ruth worked tirelessly ... Her breaking of the alabaster jar foreshadowed Jesus’ own body being broken for the world. Both Ruth and Mary of Bethany exemplify unshakable ...

The crisis has also come to Bethlehem, Jesus’s birthplace. Usually ... we gather in the church of Saint Francis below”. “We are one body of Christ, and if one member is ill the other also suffers and ...

The real presence of the body and blood of Jesus is honored ... Christian celebration of the arrival of Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus. It is observed with worship, candle ...