Just like St. Bartholomew, St. Matthew’s primary New Testament claims to fame are his call to be an Apostle and his listing among the Apostles. Apart from that, there’s not much said about him in the ...

If I say to you, “May the force be with you,” you’re likely to think about Luke Skywalker and the Star Wars movies. But someone unfamiliar with those films will have no idea what I’m talking about.

An eye-witness received special grace and guidance from the Holy Spirit to give a faithful account of information received from other sources. The Gospel of Matthew is a treasure house stored with a ...

In my NT class this week we discussed the Gospel of Matthew, the ecclesial Gospel, which alone amongst the four Gospels actually uses the word “ekklesia,” or Church. We had some interesting ...

He's sat through lots of social gospel sermons up at St. Mark's Cathedral, so our Congressman-for-Life Jim McDermott was ready recently to apply the season's message to work of the 111th Congress.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew has been extravagantly hailed as the best film ever made about Christ, possibly one of the best films ever made. Nothing in my experience of De Mille-school ...

Two and a half weeks ago, after 10 years of religious life, I was ordained a deacon. Suddenly, my life includes dedicated, quite public weekend work. Suddenly, I am charged with preaching the word of ...

The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of these early Christian churches within Israel, or in its relationship to what we call Judaism. And these are concerns that belong to the time ...