What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those are ...

The Gospel of St Luke was actually written by Jesus' mother, Mary, making it the first female book in the Bible, a writer has claimed. Dr Adam Bradford believes the document people have come to know ...

Saul Gonzalez and Kenia Salas play the parts of Joseph and Mary as they make their way along the international border fence in Nogales, Mexico, Dec. 20. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) Jesus is for everyone ...

St. Luke is one of the first prominent Gentiles in early Christianity. Despite his fame as the author of one of the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, we know almost nothing of his life. His ...

I remember well the joy of learning about the four Evangelists for the first time. I was a boy in Catholic school in Brooklyn and, from attending Mass, knew that there were different names that were ...

The Facts: Part one of a four-part project called the Biblical Imagination Series, Luke is an imaginative commentary on the third Gospel. It is well-researched, based on reliable scholarship, and ...

On Oct. 18, Catholics and other Christians around the world celebrate the feast of St. Luke, the physician and companion of St. Paul whose Gospel preserved the most extensive biography of Jesus Christ ...

“What does it mean to be a prophet?” This is the challenge preachers must wrestle with and present to their congregations over and over, says Luke Timothy Johnson, a renowned Scripture scholar, ...

The author of the Third Gospel was uniquely equipped to be the author of a book recording the history of the Great Physician in a reliable form. Although he was, according to his own declaration in ...