Having grown up in the years after Nostra Aetate – the Vatican document rejecting the traditional accusation that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus – I assumed it was a settled issue.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. For some Christians, Jesus is Lord. Jesus is a personal friend and savior who comforts in times ...

John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” The Gospel of John is the “Gospel of Belief ...

A stained-glass window in St. Edward's Church in Seattle shows Jesus, Mary and Joseph on their flight into Egypt. Credit: CNS/Crosiers Over the past 40 years, I’ve tried to read as much as I can on ...

Who was Jesus? Who is he? The Princeton scholar of religion Elaine Pagels links those two questions in her newest work, Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus (2025). And rightly so, ...

Nathanael Andrade explores the historical record to puncture a “misreading” that has often come back to haunt Jews come Easter time. Having grown up in the years after Nostra Aetate – the Vatican ...