The Gospel of Thomas is an actively used gospel within the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI used saying 82 in his 2012 Easter vigil Mass. The author gives evidence of all the sayings of Jesus, contained within the Gospel of Thomas to be explainable within Catholic theology. The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of 114 sayings of Jesus recorded by the apostle Thomas. It is the fifth gospel of Jesus. Half of the sayings of the Gospel are identical or similar in words and meaning to the canonical gospels A reading of the Gospel of Thomas is time well spent.