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On the road to Damascus, there was not so much a fall from a horse as iconography has always imagined Saint Paul at the ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

LA’s four newest auxiliary bishops stand under the arches of the friary attached to the Basilica of St. Francis during a stop ...

Out of the thirteen Pauline epistles, scholars have cast doubt on the authorial authenticity of at least six letters. Was ...

Paul is also concerned with his own body: how it is perceived, what it signifies, and what he wants his communities to see in it. He argues that his body is a sign of his faithfulness to the call he ...

Friend, when the apostle Paul survived being shipwrecked and was safe on the shores of the island of Malta, a poisonous snake bit him on the ...

In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century founders of religious orders and the eleven “Martyrs of Damascus” as saints to be venerated by the global ...

Three Supreme Court justices attended the Red Mass in downtown D.C. ahead of the start to another controversial term and ...

In a new trailer for the film, revenge-seeking Lucius is mentored as a Gladiator by Macrinus (Denzel Washington) - a former slave who plots to control Rome ... In July, Paul admitted that ...