The faithful around the world celebrate Holy Saturday on April 8, 2023. Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, is the day that some believe Jesus — his body in his tomb — descended into hell for ...

We might not see our guardian angels as a handful of saints did, but the Oct. 2 Memorial of the Guardian Angels spurs us on to be close to them and call upon their help. Our Lord Jesus said: “See that ...

Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America. Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have ...

As we enter the season of Lent on Sunday, the lectionary for the First Sunday in Lent in Year A is of course Matt 4.1–11. The epistle for this Sunday is apt: Paul's contrast in Romans 5.12–19 between ...

Far from the baby-cheeked cherubs of Renaissance art, they were fiery beings who inspired fear. In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the ...

What Matthew wrote at the end of the desert temptation story raises two questions for me. Matthew wrote, "Then the devil left ...