Of Jesus' 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the "rock" on which "I will build my church," and Catholic tradition considers ...

Have you noticed any or all of the following? A mail-order catalogue of household bric-a-brac encouraging you to buy and read “The Missing Books of the Bible”(2 vols. for $9.98)? A well-known ...

The term Apocrypha is used to designate a collection of ancient Jewish writings which were written between about 250 B.C. and the early Christian centuries. The Apocryphal books have come to be ...

*Back in the year 496, there was agreement reached, more or less, on what was regarded as holy writ, and also there was rather a lot of heretical apocrypha circulating around that needed to be cleaned ...

(The Conversation) — ‘Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden’ in Greek, but it is often used to describe texts that are outside the official biblical canon. (The Conversation) — Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter ...