Hannah was infertile, and in ancient biblical times, a “barren womb” meant that God did not favor her. Worse, Hannah’s ...

In the Old Testament, we discover that being anointed symbolizes the coming of the Holy Spirit. In 1 Samuel, we read about the prophet Samuel going to the house of Jesse to discover which one of ...

Biblical names never go out of style – they've been among the most popular names for centuries. Here are some perennial favorites, and some you may not be familiar with.

The Bible references women who follow God, hear God's voice and assume powerful political positions like prophetess Anna, ...

The Old Testament revelation ... consecrated to the Lord as a prophet, was Samuel, the judge and priest" (Sir 46:13). The prophet Isaiah proclaimed, "Hear me, O coastlands, listen, o distant ...

The Metropolitan Samuel has sometimes been charged with ... had to assume, like the Old Testament prophets, that their miseries had been willed by God. The Jesus of the Christian Gospels seems ...

There are major and minor prophets in the Bible. When I was much younger I thought a major prophet must have had a major announcement. Although, this might be true ...

The Bible is the subject of countless head-scratching mysteries. For centuries, religious and secular scholars alike have ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament ... we hear from the prophet Ezekiel how God will ...

To pitch a ‘My Turn’ guest column, email [email protected] Everyone in the world is protesting in the streets these days, it seems, but me. As they say, this year for Lent, I’m ...