Josep Lluís Iriberri is a Jesuit priest who designed a pilgrim path for St. Ignatius in northern Spain more than a decade ago ...

Mary Magdalene’s faith journey is depicted as a “continued story of constant redemption and of constant growth, where she is ...

Question marks over the man who sentenced Jesus to death existed until researchers came across a limestone slab ...

The black-and-white thinking in our politics brings to mind a skill that the state of Texas requires me to teach my college ...

Historically, the non-Christian accounts of Flavius Josephus, Cornelius Tacitus, Lucian of Samosata and even the Jewish Sanhedrin corroborate the early Christian eyewitness accounts of the ...

But what if Jesus’ family connections were as influential as ecclesiastic fervor in setting the course for a new religion?

During Jesus’ time and the early church, these historians recorded events and interpreted them. Historians like Tacitus, Josephus, and Pliny the Elder had a primary goal: to preserve Rome’s legacy.

When did Jesus really die? It is the subject of considerable debate. Historical evidence allows us to pinpoint the exact year.

How can we sure Jesus existed? Who did he think he was? What were his intentions? A look at what we know about what happened nearly 2,000 years ago ...

Continuing from last time, further criticism that the ancient Roman historian Tacitus was unreliable and showed bias in favor of Christianity is based upon his use of certain words. Critic ...

The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his crucifixion and the early persecution of Christians.