Then they gave lots to them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles. ―Acts 1:26 The betrayal and death of Judas caused severe disappointment and hurt to the ...

Pope Benedict XVI met with 30,000 people in St. Peter’s Square as he concluded his series of teachings on the Twelve Apostles. He offered his reflections on Judas Iscariot and his successor in the ...

Christians believe the Apostles — the first, most dedicated adherents of the teachings of Jesus Christ — were pretty much guaranteed a bliss-filled afterlife. Judas excepted, of course. But their ...

Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, commemorates how Jesus celebrated his final Passover with his Apostles. During the Last Supper, Jesus washed the feet of his 12 disciples as a selfless ...

So now in this Easter season we find out that Judas Iscariot, one of history’s great villains, was really a good guy. A recently published text written about 1,700 years ago and discovered in Egypt ...

Since the fall of 2020, I have been offering reflections on Father Shultz’s paintings of the 12 apostles, which are now housed in the parish hall of Christ Episcopal Church, and I believe I have saved ...

Few scholars will deny that Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was the “leading literary critic of the north of Europe” in the last quarter of the 19th Century. The sage of Copenhagen had a brilliant pen. It ...