We are here today, in fact, the entire western world from the Americas to Europe, to Africa and the Mideast and even far east Asia, thanks to the vision and heroism of the Maccabee warriors of old ...

So, the books of Maccabees were effectively in the historical Bible for both Jews and Christians. These books are omitted in most modern Jewish and Protestant Bibles, although they remain in the Old ...

The pilgrimage and congress concluded the three-year National Eucharistic Revival, which was initiated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2022 to rekindle Eucharistic faith in the ...

I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking the larger-than-life image of the Chanukah superheroes as a way to compliment today’s ...

The Book of Judith is not in the Hebrew Bible — like the Books of Maccabees, it was incorporated into the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian bibles and is included in the “Apocrypha ...

Vatican news highlights of the year 2024 included Pope Francis’ longest trip, an 11-day journey through Asia and Oceania; the conclusion of the three-year global process known as the Synod on ...