Then they gave lots to them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles. ―Acts 1:26 The betrayal and death of Judas caused severe disappointment and hurt to the ...

Pope Benedict XVI met with 30,000 people in St. Peter’s Square as he concluded his series of teachings on the Twelve Apostles. He offered his reflections on Judas Iscariot and his successor in the ...

Christians believe the Apostles — the first, most dedicated adherents of the teachings of Jesus Christ — were pretty much guaranteed a bliss-filled afterlife. Judas excepted, of course. But their ...

An essential characteristic of Christian community is its unity in diversity, and the freedom this gives to Christians to come alive as witnesses of Christ, Pope Francis said Wednesday. The selection ...

Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, commemorates how Jesus celebrated his final Passover with his Apostles. During the Last Supper, Jesus washed the feet of his 12 disciples as a selfless ...

Few scholars will deny that Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was the “leading literary critic of the north of Europe” in the last quarter of the 19th Century. The sage of Copenhagen had a brilliant pen. It ...

Judas Iscariot is famous for being a disciple of Jesus who betrayed him in exchange for money. Of the 12 disciples of Jesus, "only Peter gets more lines of coverage from the Gospel writers than does ...

So now in this Easter season we find out that Judas Iscariot, one of history’s great villains, was really a good guy. A recently published text written about 1,700 years ago and discovered in Egypt ...