If you’ve ever sat down and read through the Gospel of Mark in one sitting, one word stands out like a flashing light: ...

A scrap of papyrus from the early Christian era that refers to Jesus having a wife has met with extreme skepticism since its unveiling 11 days ago. Many scholars have declared the so-called "Gospel of ...

At a September 2012 academic conference in Rome, Karen King, a historian at Harvard Divinity School, made a major announcement. She had discovered a fragment of papyrus that bore a shocking phrase: ...

It seemed real; it seemed fake; it seemed real again; now we’re back to fake. “It” is the controversial little scrap of papyrus, written in Coptic, that seems to have Jesus referring to “my wife,” in ...

How other scholars and I verified the fragment’s inauthenticity. Jesus said, “There will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.” And behold, one of his disciples who was standing by said to him ...

John's gospel is different from the other three in the New Testament. That fact has been recognized since the early church itself. Already by the year 200, John's gospel was called the spiritual ...

‘When we partake of Jesus, the living and true Bread, we live for him,’ the Holy Father reminded the faithful. The Pope celebrates Corpus Domini in Rome with a Eucharistic procession along Via ...

For six days in September 2012, some 300 participants came together at Sapienza University, in Rome, for the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies. Among those presenting was Karen L. King.

On Jesus Is King, Kanye West depicts himself as a lonely martyr barred from the Christian kingdom. “They’ll be the first one to judge me / Make it feel like nobody love me,” he says of Christians in ...