Pope Francis celebrated the beginning of the fourth year of his pontificate with an evocative summary of his first three -- preaching to crowds in St. Peter's Square on Jesus' mercy towards a woman ...

Written over the course of almost a century after Jesus' death, the four gospels of the New Testament, though they tell the same story, reflect very different ideas and concerns.

COMMENTARY: Peace, not just as the absence of war but as the fullness of blessing, is a summary of Jesus’ entire message and mission. And it will always be one of the great paradoxes in the Gospel.

A small, 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in a German archive has been revealed to contain the earliest known copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian text describing the ...