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Posted on July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope A New Translation of Mark’s Gospel A new translation of Mark’s Gospel was published recently that I find very appealing: The Memoirs of St. Peter: A New Translation of the Gospel According to Mark, by Michael Pakaluk.As the title acknowledges, most scholars consider Mark’s Gospel to be that of Simon Peter. Tradition says that Mark was Peter’s secretary or scribe, and the recollections he recorded are really those of Peter.One of the things that make Mark’s Gospel unique is its sense of immediacy. Part of this is due...

Let My People Go  Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic EqualityBy S. S. HasanOxford University Press. 320 pp. $49.95.Reviewed by Robert W. ShaffernSana Hasan, an Egyptian scholar best known for her Enemy in the Promised Land, has written another important book in Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt—a book in which she honestly confronts the sorry condition of Christians in Egypt, where the “problems faced by the Christian minority are for many . . . a taboo subject.” Hasan courageously describes the discrimination and harm often visited upon one of Christianity’s oldest communions—the Coptic...

Wednesday April 25, 2001 Second Week of Easter Reading (1 Peter 5:5b-14) Gospel (St. Mark 16:15-20) In the Gospel reading today, the last thing Jesus tells his disciples to do before He goes into Heaven is to go out into the whole world and proclaim the Good News, to preach the Gospel to all creation. After His Ascension, Saint Mark simply says that the eleven went out and preached everywhere; and the Lord continued to work with them. He was with them always and He confirmed the message through various signs. But, of course, we know (from all of the...