New Testament

If experience can't prove it, data scraping will: Catholic sermons are shorter than their Protestant counterparts.

If experience can't prove it, data scraping will: Catholic sermons are shorter than their Protestant counterparts. According to an analysis of 50,000 sermons — Catholics commonly refer to theirs as homilies — the Pew Research Center determined that the median Catholic sermon is 14 minutes long.

Book Review: One of the most written-about figures in biblical history, Paul of Tarsus is at once a known quantity and an enigma. Most Catholics know Paul as a critical figure in the founding of the early church and by his dramatic conversion story on the road to Damascus. 

Simply Spirit: Vatican statements on women priests are invariably ahistorical and biblically naive. It is embarrassing. Worse, they bear false witness to the Jesus of history.

Distinctly Catholic: Professor Liew's theories illustrate how theologians who support academic freedom need to take the lead in differentiating between pushing an envelope and pushing nonsense.

NCR Today: The first-century church and the formation of the New Testament are dramatized in an artistically strong film about St. Paul that's worthy of a widespread audience.

The beginning of the calendar year is a time for making resolutions, but in the Catholic liturgical year it is called "Ordinary Time" — a boring title for the part of the year that's not Advent, Christmas, Lent or Easter.