Many people — Catholics included — tend to think of the Bible existing in its own realm, as if it did not arise from specific people at specific times and specific places. As silly as the image appears, the implicit...
Ecumenism is a neologism. While that sentence hits the ear with all the clumsy force of a Dr. Seuss-like bit of doggerel, it is simply a statement of fact. Traditionally, the word “ecumenical” denoted “of or pertaining to the inhabited...