Saul Gonzalez and Kenia Salas play the parts of Joseph and Mary as they make their way along the international border fence in Nogales, Mexico, Dec. 20. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) Jesus is for everyone ...
What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those are ...
With those words, Luke the Evangelist ends his narrative of Jesus’ conception, birth, and infancy. A few paragraphs later, he ...
St. Luke is one of the first prominent Gentiles in early Christianity. Despite his fame as the author of one of the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, we know almost nothing of his life. His ...
The Gospel of St Luke was actually written by Jesus' mother, Mary, making it the first female book in the Bible, a writer has claimed. Dr Adam Bradford believes the document people have come to know ...
I remember well the joy of learning about the four Evangelists for the first time. I was a boy in Catholic school in Brooklyn and, from attending Mass, knew that there were different names that were ...
"Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here" (Luke 19:30). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of ...
Find today’s readings here. Today we celebrate the feast of one of the Fab Four—and not one who grew up in Liverpool. I’ve spent the last two weeks on vacation in England and got to see where my dad’s ...
The author of Matthew wrote of a Kingdom that would embrace Jews and gentiles alike. The author of Luke wrote for a community which also awaited the arrival of God's Kingdom, but which was concerned ...