Maundy Thursday — it’s a rather odd and unusual name, isn’t it? Why was this name given to the Thursday before Easter? The name “Maundy” actually comes from an old Latin word mandatum, which means ...

He explained that he once lived with the fear that, “If I do something wrong, I’m going to hell. I felt like I had to follow the Ten Commandments.” “But,” he continues, “we don’t live by that no more.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches that the greatest commandments are love of God and love of neighbor. Illustrating this event in religious art is a challenge because, as I’ve noted before, when Jesus ...

Had Gov. Jeff Landry been in church with me on a recent Sunday, he would have heard the message, Ten Commandments versus two commandments. Since he wasn’t, I’ll recap. In Matthew 22:37-40, Jesus ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Supreme Court has not ordered the immediate removal of all Ten Commandments displays from government buildings, or from ...

Once again, the Pharisees want to trap Jesus. Matthew 22 is full of controversies. After opening with the parable of the wedding feast and the man without a wedding garment, there follow four separate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast To be sure, there are reasonable concerns about blurring the separation of ...

America recently launched a national marketing campaign called #OwnYourFaith. This article is part of a series of essays tackling the questions many Catholics are asking about the church and the world ...

It didn’t take long to record the first murder in human history. The Bible’s first death was a homicide. Cain, enraged with resentment, jealousy and anger attacked his brother and killed him. Since ...