A Facebook friend asked me about this mysterious figure: I'm curious: why did this man who is mentioned in two verses in Genesis and one in Psalms (which is then quoted in Hebrews) became such a big ...

Why is “behind the curtain” a key phrase? Within the Jerusalem temple, a heavy curtain separated humans from God, where God dwelt in the “Holy of Holies.” Once a year, on Yom Kippur, the high priest ...

R.R. Reno takes up the thankless task of critiquing Garry Wills' silly dismissal of the priesthood. Wills basically says that the problem is that decades after a priestless Church of liberal ...