EDITH STEIN, A Carmelite nun who was killed at Auschwitz used to say that “if we seek truth, then we seek God, whether we realize this or not.” Truth, and its cousin “trust,” can be major or minor ...

The question, "What is truth?" was asked by Pilate in John 18:38. When he had a conversation with Jesus, as he sought to find out if Jesus had any fault to be charged with crucifixion. In verse 37 ...

What is truth? How can it be defined? It appears that we live in a world embroiled in lies and deception and dishonesty. Yet these warnings are found in the Bible: “Thou shalt not raise a false report ...

For instance, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whom he regarded as a pious fraud; indeed, going so far as to write an entire book, dripping with disdain, for his subject. Or the late Pope St. John Paul II, ...

"No one is exempt" from the influences of the world which push for conformity to the dominant culture, according to prominent Italian Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco. In this atmosphere, he told the ...

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For some decades now it has been a vogue to disparage the confession that the Scriptures are the very Word of God with the claim that since the Bible is made up of “propositional truth” it cannot ...

In the Gospel of John, Pilate says to our Lord, "So You are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify ...