Her new release, Who Is Jesus?: Discovering Christ in the Gospels: A 12-Week Catholic Bible Study, published by Ave Maria Press — which follows Christ from his birth to his passion and resurrection — is aimed at both the first-time reader of the Bible as well has those who have read through the Bible more than once.

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in present-day Turkey) and journeyed into the Egyptian ...