VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI’s second volume of his book Jesus of Nazareth is expected to challenge modern biblical scholarship and provoke readers into thinking more profoundly about Jesus.

The Real Jesus Of Nazareth is a new four part miniseries on Smithsonian Channel looking to the truth behind Jesus and his followers. This first episode looks at Jesus’ base of influence in his ...

NAZARETH, Israel - We climbed the narrow streets of Jesus' boyhood home in Nazareth and looked out from a steep ridge. Did he really walk here? A broad valley winds northeast toward the Sea of Galilee ...

At one poignant moment in Chaim Potok's novel The Promise, Abraham Gordon, a distinguished Jewish scholar with a skeptical cast of mind, muses on one of modernity's discontents while walking through ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI offers a personal meditation on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in his first book as pontiff, criticizing the “cruelty” of capitalism’s exploitation of the poor ...

Popes are known for writing encyclicals and papal bulls, not popular works on the historical Jesus, which is in any case a field well-trod by countless other authors. But Pope Benedict XVI, a.k.a. the ...

Fr Claudio Borg began his pastoral work in the parish of St Dominic, Valletta Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna celebrated mass on the evening of October 6 to mark the start of the pastoral work of Fr ...