Fifty days after Easter we celebrate Pentecost Sunday (Pentecost is Greek for “50th day”), commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. For this reason, Pentecost is also known as the ...

Choosing a study Bible is a lot easier for Catholics than it is for Protestants! This is because there are fewer translations that contain the full canon of Scripture (including the deuterocanonical ...

“offers a gentle path into the riches of Sacred Scripture. Whether you arrive with curiosity, reflection, or a desire to study more deeply, each part of our site invites you further into the Word.

SAN FRANCISCO — “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ,” said St. Jerome. If that’s true, then lots of Catholics are getting to know Christ very well indeed. In the past year, nearly ...

A Bible is like a special room where you can have a personal conversation with God, so you want a version that you can make your own. In this Aleteia exclusive, Bible scholar Sarah Christmyer talks ...

Francis didn’t overthink what God asked. He just lived it. When he died 17 years after his conversion, his movement had ...

What Bible do Catholics use? Many people may not realize there is even a difference between Catholic and Protestant Bibles. In fact, the Catholic Bible contains a group of books called the Apocrypha ...

“St. Jerome,” from the workshop of Marinus van Reymerswaele. (Erik Cornelius/Sweden Nationalmuseum, via Wikimedia) St. Jerome, whose feast day is Sept. 30, is a giant in the intellectual history of ...

In the Judean Desert, not far from the Dead Sea, there is a series of caverns known as the Qumran Caves. Except for the occasional visit by Bedouin nomads, these caves held little interest to the ...

Just days before Pope Francis promulgated his new social encyclical, he penned an Apostolic Letter, Scripturae Sacrae Affectus (Devotion to Sacred Scripture). This is a fairly brief text in honor of ...