At the Council of Toulouse in 1229 A.D. 45 canons were ratified; 20 of which referred to heresy. “We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament, · · ...

Edward Sri is provost and professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado, and is the author of several books, including The Bible Compass: A Catholic’s Guide to Navigating the ...

The independent fundamentalist church I went to as a boy gave me a fantastic amount of Bible knowledge. There were Bible drills in Sunday School, Bible memory contests, and Bible quizzes, not to ...

“We tell Catholics that reading Scripture is an essential ingredient of Catholic life,” says biblical scholar Stephen Binz. “But we don’t teach them how to do it.” In order to “help Catholics discover ...

Characteristic of our times are the many uses and abuses of the Bible. What is the meaning of a biblical passage and how do we find it? This question divides Christians into a variety of camps, often ...

Two Christian biblical scholars share how they zeroed in on key components of God’s Word. The Bible may be the best-selling book of all time, but it’s certainly not the easiest to understand. Dr.

Anyone who can sustain reading the Bible beyond the first chapter of Genesis will notice that there are difficult passages. The Bible’s stories are forged out of murder (Gn 4), rape (Gn 34), ...