As humanity’s understanding of God’s law grew, so did the moral and social framework surrounding marriage and family life.

However G.K. Chesterton while still an Anglican wrote in his book, Othrodoxy, that original sin is the most obvious of all Christian doctrines. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says of the Immaculate Conception ... preserved immune from all stain of original sin." (Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, 1854.) 492. The "splendor of an entirely ...

Other traditions accuse the Reformers of ignoring church ... against Catholic practices like the granting of indulgences, which were thought to ameliorate temporal punishments for sin.

After God shuts them in, the flood begins, with rain for 40 days and 40 nights. This is the first time the Bible will introduce the significance of the number 40 — including the 40-day flood, 40 years ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

In this exclusive extract from Adele Bertei's new book from Bloomsbury's celebrated 33 1/3 imprint, she explores the night ...

In my bathroom hangs a photograph of William Gladstone in 1898, dead on a bier in his library at home in Hawarden, lying in ...

This year is a JUBILEE YEAR OF HOPE in the Catholic Church. Pope Francis asks, “may the Jubilee be a moment of genuine personal encounter with the Lord Jesus, when the Church is charged to proclaim ...

Timothy Gabrielli, University of Dayton (THE CONVERSATION) Pope Francis has proclaimed a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, which began on Dec. 24 ... which involves confession to a priest. Once a ...

The BBC has spoken to the late doctor's adopted son, Gary Baldwin, who said the original records ... a "terrible sin" in the ...