What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those are ...

The Gospel according to Luke was not written by a witness to the birth of Jesus. St. Luke probably never even saw Jesus. Instead, he studied the written accounts of the birth and life of Jesus, ...

We’re in Year C of the liturgical cycle, and that means the Gospel of Luke is the one we’ll hear most often at Sunday Masses this year. Luke’s vision of Jesus is deeply attuned to God’s compassion, ...

He was born to rule the nations, to bring universal peace and the favor of heaven. That is how he wanted to be remembered in ages to come, and so, with an eye toward his impending death, he ordered an ...