For me, there are three themes that I draw out of our tradition and that I emphasize in my preaching: solidarity, empathy and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) With the death of Pope Francis, attention now turns to the selection of his successor. The next pope will be chosen in what is called a “conclave,” a Latin word meaning “ a room ...

The sixth word from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake.

Hundreds of faithful walked solemnly Friday with actors portraying Jesus and his mother, Mary, marking one of the holiest of ...

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

Thousands of people recited prayers while carrying large wooden crosses and walking through the streets of the Old City of ...

We should sit with the suffering and the abandonment of the cross, with the rejection of all that Jesus taught which that cross implies. We should sit with death, with such a death. In the Middle ...

In 2014, art historian Mina Gregori said she had found 17th century painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's 'Magdalene in ...

I study the evolving image of Jesus Christ from A.D. 1350 to 1600. Some of the best-known depictions of Christ, from Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” to Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment ...