so they might be surprised that — a day after the birth of Jesus Christ — the Church is marking the feast of its first martyr, the deacon Stephen. Catholics in Europe — where Christmas is ...
I am surely not the only child who was stressed to see Catholic calendars displaying images of Jesus adorned with an anatomically explicit, occasionally bleeding, heart.
Whoever he was, Mark's gospel was the first ... God brings an end to the present evil age. As Jesus moves toward his final fate, he is questioned by the High Priest, who asks: "are you the Christ ...
A stained-glass window, donated in 1877 to a church in Rhode Island, shows Jesus as ... and inferior. Christ, however, asks her for water and tells her that he is Son of God, the Messiah.