During Holy Week, which began with Palm Sunday (April 13), we remember the last days of Jesus before he was arrested, tortured and killed for challenging the religious and political orthodoxy of his ...

VATICAN CITY — As the Church this week reflects on Jesus’ crucifixion and death, Pope Francis said that it is the cross that gives us hope. He urged faithful to enter into the mystery of Christ’s ...

She lies on a cross. My wife is preparing to give birth to our daughter. It’s our fourth child, her fourth time on the instrument. She does not hang on it. She is lying down, strapped to it, her arms ...

On Friday, Christians around the world commemorate with prayers and fasting the death of Jesus Christ days before the arrival of Easter and the hope of the Resurrection. The church calls on believers ...

Pope Francis leads an audience with members of Fidesco at the Vatican March 20, 2021. Fidesco is a Catholic organization that recruits and deploys people for missionary and development work. (Credit: ...

When I was in law school, my parents were still working, so they would visit me on long holiday weekends. Columbus Day turned out to be the most interesting. My school was open on that Monday, and I ...

For I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him as crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). The ancients built the tower of Babel to scale the parapets of heaven. Athens erected her altars to gods ...

A long-lost painting by Peter Paul Rubens has sold at auction for €2.3 million in Versailles. The painting depicting the crucifixion of Jesus by the Flemish Baroque master (1577 - 1640) was hidden for ...

Crucifixion followed a bloody script of sorts that maximized the suffering and prolonged death. It began when the one being crucified was stripped of his clothing then beaten with a flagrum, a ...