June 29 marks the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The New Testament, of course, portrays Peter as a Galilean Jew, a fisherman, who became an early disciple of Jesus. He is remembered as being foremost ...

St. Peter was a fisherman. Fishing nets and tilapia were his daily reality. Born without distinction in a backwater of the Roman Empire, he presumably would have lived and died in total obscurity, had ...

This is a fascinating question because Paul, by all appearances, was the least likely person to pioneer early Christianity's missionary efforts. He was born a Jew in Tarsus but raised and educated in ...

It has been a big year for the Apostle Paul. According to the Roman Catholic Church, 2009 is his year—or more exactly the liturgical year from June 28, 2008 to June 29, 2009 was his year, marking the ...

Andrew Hyatt's biblical drama 'Paul, Apostle of Christ' stars James Faulkner as Saint Paul and Jim Caviezel as Saint Luke. By Todd McCarthy The life of the crucial evangelist Paul has everything ...

I went to see “Paul, Apostle of Christ”—the recently released film about the New Testament’s hardest-traveling Christian missionary—with low expectations. Faith-based films have fared poorly since Mel ...

“For by grace are ye saved through faith,” the Apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians, “and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” This and related ...

Bestselling author Armstrong (A History of God), a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, constructs a solid overview of the life of St. Paul, arguably the first Christian writer. Armstrong's view of Paul ...

'The Passion of the Christ' star Jim Caviezel returns to faith-based cinema for this apocryphal tale of Paul's final days in prison, complete with flashbacks to the more compelling part of his life.