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 ...

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 ...

For more than 40 years, the Rev. Roger V. Karban of the Diocese of Belleville has loved the Scriptures, studying them deeply, preaching on them weekly and teaching about them in popular Bible study ...

Twenty-five years ago, Helen McMonagle, a Lancaster "cradle" Catholic, was invited to a nondenominational Bible study. McMonagle said she was "blown away" by other group members' Bible knowledge. She ...

Next month, EWTN Global Catholic Network will premiere the television series "Scripture and Tradition," a new weekly Bible study hosted by Scripture scholar Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ. The series will ...

The Newman Center at West Chester University has begun offering three academic credits for students who, as they told writer ...

Neither the place nor the passages were chosen at random for twice-a-month Bible-study gatherings for Catholic singles in Daytona Beach. “We meet by the sea because of its natural and Biblical setting ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Catholic laypeople aren’t known for studying Scripture — a habit more often associated with their Protestant brethren. “In the past, unfortunately, that’s ...

LITTLE ROCK — In the Bible Belt of the 1970s, Protestant Bible studies were as common as country music and NASCAR, but Catholic Scripture studies were virtually nonexistent. So a group of Arkansas ...