Written over the course of almost a century after Jesus' death, the four gospels of the New Testament, though they tell the same story, reflect very different ideas and concerns.

Pope Francis celebrated the beginning of the fourth year of his pontificate with an evocative summary of his first three -- preaching to crowds in St. Peter's Square on Jesus' mercy towards a woman ...

COMMENTARY: Peace, not just as the absence of war but as the fullness of blessing, is a summary of Jesus’ entire message and mission. And it will always be one of the great paradoxes in the Gospel.

Why did Peter and Andrew, James and John follow Jesus? According to Matthews narrative (and Marks), these four fishermen had no prior knowledge of Jesus. While they were at work in Capernaum one day, ...

A small, 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in a German archive has been revealed to contain the earliest known copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian text describing the ...