June 29 marks the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The New Testament, of course, portrays Peter as a Galilean Jew, a fisherman, who became an early disciple of Jesus. He is remembered as being foremost ...

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” It was written by the Apostle Paul, and I have heard many a sermon on the first part of this chapter and these verses.

St. Peter was a fisherman. Fishing nets and tilapia were his daily reality. Born without distinction in a backwater of the Roman Empire, he presumably would have lived and died in total obscurity, had ...

The Apostle Paul is often considered to be the most important person — after Jesus — in the history of Christianity. Of the 27 books in the New Testament of the Bible, 13 are attributed to Paul, and ...

Sunday Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Jersey City on Aug. 27, 2023. (Silvia Falcon photo) Sunday Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Jersey City on Aug. 27, 2023. (Silvia Falcon photo) ...

“Paul: A Biography” isn’t the first book Bible scholar N.T. Wright has written about Paul, the apostle responsible for so many of the letters in the New Testament. He also penned “Paul,” “Paul and the ...

It would be hard to overstate the importance of Paul of Tarsus in the history of the early Church and, for that matter, the last two millennia of human history. His extraordinary missionary travels ...

Every year at Easter, my mind turns to Paul. That may seem odd; but Paul was, in effect, the inventor of Christianity, the founding theorist of the new religion. He was a brilliant, quirky and ...