If we truly want to read and understand the Bible, there are principles that need to be adhered to for scripture to speak for itself and interpret itself. For example: • Allowing scripture to define ...

Many years ago, I heard a statement that has stayed with me ever since: “Man’s basic spiritual problem is the integrity of the Word of God.” From the opening chapters of Scripture, humanity’s trouble ...

My comments on Wednesday with respect to historical reality and “deception” in the Bible drove me back to some good friends: books on interpretation of the Bible. What I found disturbing in the ...

The local diocesan newspaper here in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, The Catholic Spirit, has a short piece on some comments the Pope sent to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, whose ...