VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While Catholics believe the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it is true, one cannot take individual biblical quotes or passages and say each one is literally true, ...

Ignorance of sacred Scriptures is ignorance of Jesus Christ, Pope Leo XIV said during his weekly general audience.

The Word of God is not "fossilized," but rather develops and grows in tradition, Pope Leo XIV said. The Church's "deposit of faith," which contains "the entirety of our faith -- doctrine, worship, ...

In the spiritual life, we are called to engage our bodies and spiritual souls. The different prayer forms of the Church are meant to help and guide us in this process. We cannot separate our bodies ...

The Transfiguration of Jesus, in the Gospel reading for this Sunday's Mass that Msgr. Joseph Prior explains, uses three images that show how God is not distant but is present to us in a communion of ...

The prayers of supplication include petition. There are many and various different forms of petition. As we look at the Sacred Scriptures, we see that lamentation is a predominant form of supplication ...

Walking into a Catholic Church during Lent it is easy to tell the season. The color purple is used. No flowers are in the sanctuary. Symbols such as a wooden cross or crown of thorns are somewhere in ...

The Risen Christ stands in our midst. He has conquered the kingdom of sin and death. The Resurrection of the Lord stops the momentum of evil and leads us to glory unto glory. The accounts given in the ...