In Acts 15 Luke reports on the Council of Jerusalem, the first ecumenical council in the history of the Church. An ecumenical council is typically called so the pope and the bishops can confer and settle a matter of disputed doctrine. At the Council of Jerusalem, the issue was whether
Saint Paul never rode a roller coaster. He wouldn’t have needed to. His missionary journeys are a series of wild ups and downs. Paul’s first missionary journey takes him (together with Barnabas) from Antioch in Syria to several cities in Asia Minor (what is now Turkiye). Paul and Barnabas share