Tribulation is God's way of teaching us, though his mercy is always present, John Paul II told his weekly general audience July 25. “Affliction therefore seems to be a kind of divine pedagogy in which ...

The Book of Tobit is one of the seven deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. The Church accepted it into the canon despite some resistance because the Jews themselves had not accepted it as part ...

The young man [Raphael] said, “Take courage! God’s healing is near; so take courage!” ―Tobit 5:10b The archangel Raphael is presented within the beautiful story of Tobit―a biblical novella within the ...

The Book of Tobit is an astonishing book. It is a part of the Septuagint Old Testament, and therefore only in Orthodox and Roman Catholic Bibles. Until 1929, it was included in Protestant Bibles (in ...