Laura Bernardini (@laurabernardini) is director of coverage in CNN’s Washington, DC, bureau. She’s a lifelong Catholic but had never read the Bible from cover to cover. Over the course of about two years she read every word, from Genesis to Revelation, and reported about it on CNN. This is an archive of her articles.

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Here’s an ongoing list of Laura Bernardini’s weekly essays on CNN:

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 1: The Genesis

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 2: A Flood of First Impressions (Genesis 1-11)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 3: Get Me Out of Genesis (Genesis 19)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 4: Inspired by an Above-Average Joe (Genesis 37)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 5: This God Scares Me (Exodus)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 6: Going Back to the Roots (Leviticus)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 7: 10,000 Commandments (Leviticus)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 8: Uncomfortably Numbed by Numbers (Numbers)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 9: A Talking Ass Saves the Day (Numbers 22)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 10: God Needs an Editor (Deuteronomy)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 11: Seeking Professional Help

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 12: God’s Promises (Joshua)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 13: Rooting for Ruth (Ruth)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 14: Better Not Call Saul (1 Samuel)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 15: Cruel and Unusual Punishments (2 Samuel)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 16: Praying for the Wisdom of Solomon (1 Kings)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 17: Ahab Goes to the Dogs (1 Kings 16)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 18: If You Feed Them, They Will Come (1 Kings 17)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 19: Pete and Repeat (1 Chronicles)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 20: God’s Blinged-Out Building (1 Chronicles 28)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 21: Different Names, Same Punishment (2 Chronicles 26)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 22: Nehemiah, A Regular Guy With An Extraordinary Job (Nehemiah)

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A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 23: Calling All Angels (Tobit [NRSVCE])

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 24: Girl Power (Judith (CEB) and Esther)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 25: Two Maccabee or Not to Maccabee? (1 Maccabees [NABRE] and 2 Maccabees [NABRE])

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 26: Halfway to Revelation

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 27: Back on the Job (Job)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 28: Hearing the Music of Psalms (Psalms)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 29: Inside the Fortune Cookie Factory (Proverbs)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 30: Browsing the Airport Bookstore (Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and Sirach [NRSVCE])

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 31: From Proverbs to Prophets (Isaiah)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 32: Between the World and the Word (Isaiah)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 33: Jeremiah’s Long-Winded Lamentations (Jeremiah)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 34: Finding Hope in Lamentations (Lamentations)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 35: Baking bread with Ezekiel (Baruch (CEB) and Ezekiel)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 36: Deadlines and Daniel (Daniel)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 37: Prophetpalooza (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 38: Between the Old and New (Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah, Malachi)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 39: Under My Roof (Beatitudes (Matthew 5-7) and Matthew 8:1-13)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 40: God Hates Figs? (Matthew 19 and Matthew 21)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 41: Between Faith and Fear (Mark 6)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 42: The Sermon on the Plain (Luke 2 and Luke 6)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 43: Judgment from Beyond the Grave (Luke 16)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 44: Finding Joy in the Gospel (John 15)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 45: For (Saint) Pete’s Sake (Matthew 26 and John 21)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 46: Start Spreading the News (Acts)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 47: A Confession About Confessing (Romans)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 48: Finding Peace With St. Paul (Romans)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 49: Training Body and Soul With St. Paul (1 Corinthians)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 50: Walking In St. Paul’s Sandals (Ephesians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 51: Readings and Revelations (Titus, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude)

A Catholic Reads the Bible, Week 52: Alpha and Omega (Revelation)

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