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Cyril the Virile

Today’s saint, Cyril of Alexandria, is both a Father and a Doctor of the Church. The titles are a grace, of course, but he worked ...

Bishops Announce New Translation of the New Testament

In America the most widely used English version of the Bible by Catholics is the New American Bible. Its popularity is largely due to the ...

Origen and His Influence on Christian Theology

With the big discovery of some of his lost homilies on the Psalms in the news, I decided to focus on Origen in this week’s ...

Feast of Faith

“Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival … with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:8). Saint Paul wrote that line about the ...

Lost Homilies of Origen Found!

I’ve written a bit on Origen in the past (e.g., here). He’s one of my favorite early Christian writers. He’s also one of Pope Benedict’s ...

First copy of Nehemiah found in unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls!

Exciting news! Anyone familiar with the Dead Sea Scrolls can tell you that portions of nearly every book in the Hebrew Bible are represented in ...

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