This Sunday, the readings highlight the Judeo-Christian wisdom tradition found in Scripture. Wisdom literature takes many forms in the Bible. One form is as a set of “sayings,” aphorisms and proverbs, ...

“Being a ‘Good Catholic’ I had never read the entire Bible, but I wanted to read the Bible—so I wrote this book so I could read the Bible,” says Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto, Professor of History at ...

Beloved, it is only those whom the Spirit of God has enlightened that will understand that wisdom is all about the knowledge of the truth and its application. A man without true wisdom is like one ...

Last Sunday, we celebrated Pentecost which commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit. The feast reminds us that God is ever-present in our lives, hopefully informing and inspiring our actions. This ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

One of the divisions of the Hebrew Bible is the Ketuvim, the Writings, or otherwise called Wisdom literature. The wisdom tradition is an ancient one, originating in Mesopotamia, Canaan and Egypt.

I don’t know about you, but I recall always being told, growing up, about the importance of wisdom—as some kind of life-learning objective, as if it were the pinnacle of cognitive development. There’s ...