Over the past several months, the Catholic Book Club at America has considered recently published works about Jesus. In March, we read Christ Actually by James Carroll. The book inspired a great deal ...

Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash. In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a prayer just before he is arrested. While the Synoptic Gospels record the agony in the garden, when Jesus’ followers fall asleep as ...

“Performance art” is the term Aaron Rosen uses in his new book to describe moments in Jesus’ ministry, and it quickly becomes apparent that this use of the term is not at all irreverent. What Would ...

When I began to reflect on this Gospel lesson that we hear today, I immediately began to think of the first lesson in relationship to it. You can tell they’re very closely related. The first lesson ...

Jesus was no stranger to controversy, and neither are the films about him. The Passion of the Christ, which opens today, is no exception. It is Mel Gibson’s tribute to the spiritual rescue he says he ...

Another in a series of occasional articles. TEHRAN -- A man wrapped in a shawl stood at the door. “This is Jesus,” said another man. Jesus sat and peeled an orange as his companion, Nader Talebzadeh, ...

The historical sections of the Hebrew Scriptures sometimes read like PG-rated dramas seasoned with a measure of bawdy humor. Today's story from 1 Samuel recounts the second time David refused to ...

VATICAN CITY — While acknowledging that power struggles have existed in the Church since it began, Pope Francis said Jesus’ teaching on power leaves no room for them. “In the Church, the greatest is ...

Victor Newsome’s current works are challenging in the sheer wilful singularity of their vision. Comprising full-face portraits of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, their grave, heavy-lidded, yet oddly ...

A California woman believed to have had visions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and other Catholic saints in the 1950s has moved closer to canonization as a saint. The United States Conference of Catholic ...