In Christianity, the donkey becomes almost a symbol of Jesus Christ himself, given how it patiently suffers and bears others’ ...

WITH the blessing of the fronds — in the Philippines, often artistically woven coconut leaves — the Holy Week starts. Whether ...

President Donald Trump issued a Holy Week proclamation on Palm Sunday vowing to "defend the Christian faith" in the schools, ...

Holy Week culminates with the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection on Easter Sunday. This is a day of joy, because Jesus ...

I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the ...

You have to draw close to hear the words, for a crucified man struggles to speak, his lungs crushed under the pressure of his ...

What the crowds on Palm Sunday misunderstood about Jesus then is what many religious people still misunderstand today: Jesus ...

There are a lot of lessons taught in the Good Friday story. But, it really has only one message: Jesus died on the Cross to ...

On Palm Sunday we contemplate the meaning of Christ's suffering. Bishop Mario Alberto Molina invites us to see the cross as ...

For Christians, Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating events in the last days of Jesus Christ’s life. The Scriptures say that on Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into ...

An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Catholic Church does over ...

The danger was so great that the apostle Thomas said: “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.” John 11:16. Jesus knew that His return to Jerusalem, His death and resurrection was part of God’s ...