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 ...

As a professor of Christian archaeology and director of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum’s museum, he’s part of a 700-year-old Franciscan ... items replaced with oil lamps, characteristic ...

If you’re trying to turn your house into a haunted mansion this Halloween season, don’t buy those antique oil lanterns for ...

To give a proper perspective on the New Covenant sacrament of reconciliation instituted by Christ, we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column ...

This series aims to remedy the deficiency of available published material on the theological concerns of the Old Testament books. Here, specialists explore the theological richness of a given book at ...

All are natural in origin, fuelled by a never-ending supply of gas, coal or oil seeping out from Earth ... Shadrach and ...

In Lafayette Square, the centerpiece of LaGrange, it is still the 1890s. As I walk the entirety of the red-bricked circular ...

They appear even in the oldest books of the Old Testament. Parables were often used ... does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Why and how is the Old Testament figure of the Queen Mother a type or model of Our Lady? A: Comparing the queen mother tradition, as it existed in Israel to ...

Volume 3 of The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, edited by the Cambridge scholar Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917), was first published in 1894. It contains the books from Hosea to 4 ...

Sara Weaver was seven years old when her family moved from Iowa to ... Sara thought the Amish kids were super-quiet and nice. She liked the oil lamps they used and was impressed by the little ...