From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:54-55: When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus ... Under the Cross stand Mary, his Mother, the sister of his Mother ...

Popes in my lifetime have written eloquently about Mary, many of whom had a deep devotion to the Mother of God. Pope St. John Paul II, in his encyclical “Redemptoris Mater” made this observation about ...

Jesus' fall beneath the Cross is not just the fall of the man Jesus, exhausted from his scourging. There is a more profound meaning in this fall, as Paul tells us in the Letter to the Philippians ...