If the document is real, and Jesus did in fact have a wife, the implications could be tremendous, the article says: the discovery could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married, whether Mary ...

In my previous post, “Why the Catholic Church Defined Marriage,” I noted that the Roman pagan world, into which the Church was born, had monogamy, but not the Christian understanding of monogamy—and ...

Two nuns have lifted a lid on what it's really like to be 'brides of Jesus Christ,' spilling on everything from what it's like to leave their families behind and why they get new names to how they get ...

I'm a sixteen year old girl [. . .] For a few years I very much wanted to be a cloistered nun, and read many works and practiced some of the spirituality of different orders. However, for a while now ...

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A writer’s Easter pilgrimage, from Jordan to Jamaica, to find a multiethnic image of Christ. By Eric V. Copage Close your eyes and imagine that Jesus is in front of you. Is the man kneeling in prayer ...