Stephen Bevans News Today

We can accept as a given that our Roman church inherited much from its classical Roman ethos—including its sense of authority as growing from a past, and that is obvious enough when we think about the Catholic sense of tradition. But we can make a good case for a less noticeable but no less certain Roman inheritance: Our church can be seen in republican terms, as a republic.

REFLECTIONS TODAY Reflections today One of the epithets of St. Paul is Apostle to the Gentiles, owing to the fact that through his ministry and writings, he greatly contributed to the spread of Christianity in the whole Roman Empire. He was a missionary par excellence. The instruction of the Ris