The word “excruciating” is an interesting word. Coming from Latin, it literally means “from the cross.” Excruciating pain is ...

The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.

Pope Francis’ final days weren’t wasted. They were a homily without words — on how to die with Jesus, love like Jesus, and ...

The exact date of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross has reportedly been "confirmed" by NASA, according to claims that connect biblical descriptions with astronomical data.

Easter, recently passed, is not a holiday I have ever celebrated in any way beyond the long-ago dyeing of eggs and covert ...

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13). This verse of the Bible, like many ...

The final days of practice for the annual Pilsen Via Crucis are a "very pressured routine" and labor of love and tradition.

Today's "builders of Babel" are constructing a hell on earth, Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.

Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...

Many traditions include self-flagellation or even re-enacting the crucifixion to emulate the suffering of Jesus Christ.

The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in Homewood on Good Friday afternoon drew more than 100 believers who ...

For the second year in a row, Steve George is carrying a 13-foot wooden cross around the Tennessee Valley in honor of Easter.