Protestants deny that good works can be meritorious (i.e., rewarded by God), but St. Augustine taught that our merit was merely God “crowning his own gifts.” That’s what the Catholic Church teaches.

God’s word is a training manual for having a relationship with God. The Bible teaches us how to love one another, how to ...

Second, it should draw worshipers beyond themselves and into a relationship with things that transcend their particular place and time: the universal church, a rich Catholic tradition and ...

Here, we present a few short but pertinent facts about the Christians of the "Land of the Cedars." 1. Christians make up a ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit ... incest in Genesis 19:32 and inhumanity in Psalm 137:9. Also in Hosea 1:2, God commands the prophet Hosea to marry a woman who would commit adultery.

His life was one of dazzling transitions that sometimes made him seem unstable—from attorney to churchman, from Catholic to Protestant ... and a full complement of 32 courses.

The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...

"The goal tonight was to play with a lot of energy and emotion. They did a great job defensively," Pensacola Catholic head ...

9 Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God : I will seek to do thee good. Psalm 123. Ad te levavi oculos meos Unto thee lift I up mine eyes : O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2 Behold, even ...

5 Shew yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands : sing, rejoice, and give thanks. 6 Praise the Lord upon the harp : sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving. 7 With trumpets also and shawms ...

A seminary on Flores, a Catholic-majority island in Indonesia ... the head of the rectorate office. Aurelio Morghan, 32, is one of the 48 seminarians at Ledalero scheduled to be ordained in ...