READER 2: Simon’s human nature, like ours, balks at the idea of carrying the cross with Christ. But once he starts, it’s hard to stop. As deadly as sin is, virtue is even more powerful.

The Stations of the Cross commemorate 14 key events that took place on the day of Christ’s crucifixion, beginning with Christ being condemned to death, recounting Christ carrying his cross ...

A stone sarcophagus in the Vatican Museums, for example, shows events leading up to Christ’s death. In the center, however, Christ’s triumphant resurrection from the dead shows only his cross ...

EASTER CELEBRATES the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. ... The image of Jesus on the cross has been invented by commissioned artists.

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross isn’t just a historical event—it’s the divine epicenter of Christian redemption, ...

Rome Newsroom, Nov 20, 2022 / 07:25 am. On the Solemnity of Christ the King, Pope Francis said Jesus, through his death on the cross, opened his arms to embrace all people and everything about ...

Fr. Schineller's image of the Smiling Christ is one that I like to remember during lent. The first time I began to reflect on that image was when I read Fr. Walter Burghardt's lenten homily "For ...

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross on Good Friday was a way for God to turn the greatest moral evil in history into the greatest act of good, said Curtis Martin of FOCUS.

A new study shows potential evidence of crucifixion done to Jesus Christ through stains on the Shroud of Turin. Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Heaven help us. A holy war is brewing ...

Christ is emerging from a dark semicircular area below the ground, and he is standing atop or trampling down a full-bearded, prostrate figure whose feet and hands are chained. He looks up with ...

An indelible image of that final Holy Week was the dying Pope watching the Via Crucis by television in his chapel, his own broken body embracing the cross. John Paul died at 9:37pm on Saturday ...