St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate is the most influential Bible translation in the history of western Christendom. As a translation, it’s been astoundingly important — even more than the King James Version.

The story is told of the Irish woman, 40 years married and the mother of seven, who left church after hearing a sermon from a young priest on marriage and motherhood and remarked, “Sure and I wish I ...

Readers of the Latin Bible could see how close love and diligence are. Anyone who has studied a foreign language knows the fun of stumbling across a word that looks familiar. It’s like a treasure hunt ...