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

This is Chaplain Harry, state chaplain with the Disabled American Veterans reading from 1 Peter 2:24 where it says, "He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, ...

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

Like so many Christians, I spent a lot of time before Easter thinking about the Crucifixion: how it must have felt for Jesus ...

The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is a cornerstone of Christian theology, with historical, biblical and archaeological evidence ...

ROME (CNS) — Today’s “builders of Babel” are constructing a hell on earth, rejecting everyone they decide are “losers,” Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.

The Bible doesn’t describe Jesus being nailed to a cross. Telling the story of Christ’s death, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John simply say that Roman soldiers crucified him. They don’t say how. Each of ...

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

Christian devotees from the Philippines were nailed to a cross on Friday in a reenactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion in ...

“We have no idea what wood the cross of Jesus was made of; but symbolically it is the olive tree of which Jesus is the fruit,” he said. “The fruit must be crushed to yield its oil, and Jesus is ...

One of the ways Christians have traditionally meditated on Good Friday is by reading and reflecting on the seven last words of Jesus from the cross. Luke records the final words of Jesus before he ...