Last Friday we looked at the biblical truth called justification by faith. From a 19th-Century American statement of faith, “The New Hampshire Confession,” we saw three ways that being justified ...

"Can faith make one’s life better? More vibrant? More robust?” These questions sound like a pitch for yet another warmed-over prosperity gospel. But any suggestion of that school of thought ends as ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he arrives for his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Sept. 29, 2021. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday ...

Sacred Scripture says that Phinehas was justified by works, just as Abraham was (James 2:21-22 below): Psalms 106:30-31 (RSV) Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, and the plague was stayed. And that ...

This column is the second in a series of 10 explaining salvation from the historic Christian viewpoint. Nine different aspects of salvation were introduced last month. This month, the first of the ...

At the general audience, Francis said: "What is hidden behind the word 'justification', which is so decisive for faith? It is not easy to arrive at an exhaustive definition, but in the whole of St ...

Pope Benedict XVI continued his catechesis on St. Paul at his general audience on Nov. 19. He spoke about St. Paul’s teaching on justification. St. Paul realized that we are made righteous before God ...

Both traditions can appreciate Luther’s famous dictum as a recovery, not a discovery. Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, famously broke with the Roman Catholic Church, ...

The doctrine with which we are concerned is both the divine heart of the Gospel and the Gospel for the human heart. To seek an answer to the question, How can a man be just before God? is to be ...