The feast of St. John the Evangelist, an apostole who played a very prominent role in many of the New Testament narratives, ...

Christian actor Alister Hawke knew he had "big shoes to fill" when stepping into the role of the Apostle John, Jesus' beloved ...

ST. JOHN S GOSPEL : A BIBLE STUDY GUIDE AND COMMENTARY by Stephen K. Ray Ignatius, 2002 461 pages, $17.95 To order: (800) 651-1531 or www.ignatius.com The Apostle John, St. Augustine wrote, “was one ...

Having prayed at the House of Mary Shrine in Ephesus, Turkey — at which Pope Benedict would make a historic stop a year and a half later — I decided to set my sights on the nearby ruins of St. John’s ...

“The disciple, the one Jesus loved, ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first” (John 20:4). The closeness of the Feast of St. John the Evangelist to the Solemnity of Christmas is deliberate, ...

Beloved disciple or whore? Was Mary of Magdala married to Jesus? Was she a leader of the early church? Why did Jesus appear to Mary first and instruct her to tell the other disciples about his ...

The music is out in brassy force, the altar flowers are in full bloom, and the sanctuary is full of people not seen since December. Ironically, even the visitors know the story, or imagine they do, ...

Richard Bauckham, professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, poses a severe challenge to form criticism, the highly influential 20th-century methodology that deals with the oral ...

James Tissot, "The Appearance of Christ at the Cenacle," 1886-1894. (Wikimedia Commons) Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of columns by James Keenan, S.J., on contemporary issues in moral ...

The Easter Sunday Gospel is, at best, a half-story. Hearing it is like listening to a 4-year-old report on his day: lots of details, little plot and not much of a conclusion. Mary went to Jesus' tomb ...

Find today’s readings here. The Lectionary bookends the Lenten season with lovely irony. On Ash Wednesday, just before we smear our foreheads with the sign of our penitence, Jesus in the Gospel ...