An annual 100-hour, nonstop public Bible reading takes place in St. Martinville in the Diocese of Lafayette Jan. 19-23.
The holy Bible will be read publicly from cover to cover without pause in the square of the diocese's oldest church parish, St. Martin
A reader asks Monsignor Charles Pope: “I hear a lot these days about spiritual warfare. … Given this, should we consider atheists to be the enemy?” Monsignor explains that to label all atheists as enemies is too broad since many people don’t
A billboard will go up in New York's Times Square during Christmas and New Year's to promote and celebrate the evermore popular podcast "The Bible in a Year," but more is in store for the program that topped the charts shortly after
During a virtual news conference on November 3, Father Mike Schmitz and others involved with the “Bible in a Year’ podcast touted the project’s success — it still tops the Apple charts in all podcast categories — and also announced that a
A reader asks, “What were the urim and the thummim? The Bible mentions that the Old Testament priests used them but doesn’t seem to say what they were or how they were used.” In his latest column, Msgr. Charles Pope explains that
A reader asks: “Is not the slavery of the Bible different from the slavery of the Americas?” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope unpacks the difference between slaves and stolen persons as explained in the Book of Exodus. While slaves were
A reader writes: “My spouse, who is an Evangelical, says that Catholics believe the Church rather than the Bible. She thinks the only source of authority is the Bible and that it is wrong to believe in a human institution. What is
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Father Patrick Hakes tells the story of a Bible he found in a puddle under a bridge while he was running recently. He calls it the “Ought Bible,” because when he got home and
Reading the Bible has had a positive effect on people's "mental well-being" during the pandemic, according to a Christian Research survey conducted in the United Kingdom.
The survey also found that respondents were reading the Bible more and turning to Bible-related videos more
If great minds had brainstormed how to create a podcast that would jump to No. 1 in Apple's podcast rankings, they never would have landed on "The Bible in a Year," joked Jeff Cavins, a Bible scholar and creator of the Great