This is week 19 of an ongoing series: A Catholic Reads the Bible.Read Week One, Week Two and Week Three.. When we were kids, my brother and sister and I tended, like most siblings, to spend a lot ...

Laura Bernardini is a lifelong Catholic but had never read the Bible from cover to cover . For the next year, she's going to read every word, from Genesis to Revelation . CNN — ...

GOD'S LIBRARY: A Catholic Introduction to the World's Greatest Book Joe Paprocki, . . Loyola, $13.95 (122pp) ISBN 978-0-8294-2069-2 ...

The Magna Carta. Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu.

The Council of Trent made the Vulgate the official text of the Catholic Church, and our present edition was brought out by Clement VIII in 1592. 4. The Rheims-Douay Bible.

Like many good Catholics, I had never read the whole Bible. In 13 years of Catholic grammar and high schools, I heard the big texts, mostly from the Gospels: Parables, the Passion, the Sermon on ...

Divisions of the Bible. The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order ...

It’s a common myth that the Catholic Church makes such a claim. The Church contends, rather, that an authoritative Christian tradition and Church were necessary to establish the canon of ...

Likewise, the Catholic Church was entitled to have an opinion on the matter also, without being unjustly accused of being “anti-Bible.” The early Protestants, including Martin Luther himself ...