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The two-time Cy Young Award winner is the only Ranger who will represent the club on July 15 at Atlanta’s Truist Park, ...

Catholicism teaches that Scripture involves more than the canon accepted by the Jews, Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament. [A&W, p.33] ...

The Chicago Bears are finally ready to put behind a disastrous three-year tenure under Matt Eberflus and Thomas Brown, who took over the last five games followi ...

A shattered Kalyn Ponga has undergone surgery on a foot injury that will sideline him for the rest of the season – unless ...

Wests Tigers' decision to let Tallyn Da Silva walk free mid-contract is the latest bewildering chapter in the club's never-ending soap opera.

Throughout his career, you see the outlines of a man burdened by the myth he helped build. A man who stared down America’s worst tendencies and tried to warn us, only to watch them metastasize. And in ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...

Another Old Testament event that prefigures the sacrament of reconciliation is in Genesis 4. Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger brother, Abel.

By Brian Pizzalato 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.

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...