Okay, you know what the right answer is supposed to be, but if the Catholic Church is going to make such a big deal about mortal sins being . . . well, mortal, then it kind of makes venial sins look ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a “purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven,” which is experienced by those “who die in God’s grace ...

Mickey Mattox notes some important details that influence our understanding of Luther’s context of Wittenberg, Germany. Mattox says that that city constantly contested religious authority even before ...

The four Gospels depict Jesus as a man living in Roman Palestine in the first century. This presents a problem for those who would like to say he was nothing but a mythological figure, and they argue ...

There are those moments . . . not when you have something difficult to say, but when you sense that the other person may. You have a feeling, or you may know, that he is embarrassed about something or ...

One of the most contested religious occurrences in modern times took place a century ago in the mountainous village of Fatima, Portugal. This was a time of political instability and war, causing ...