Pope Francis, who is still recovering from pneumonia, was not present at the Easter morning Mass but gave the Easter blessing ...

The hope Christians have is not a sign of avoiding reality but of trusting in the power of God to defeat sin and death as the ...

Because Easter fell on the same day on the Julian and Gregorian calendars, meaning Catholic and Orthodox were celebrating on ...

The Gospel accounts of the “two kingdoms” represented in Jesus and Caesar seem strikingly contemporary here and now.

Celebrating his first Easter Vigil as the new archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said that Jesus, through ...

The Easter story is one of a king laying down his life for what the people needed, even as they mocked and crucified him, writes Greg Baker.

Msgr. Joseph Prior explains this Sunday's Palm Sunday Gospel account of Jesus’ crucifixion and death as a celebration of God’s love, a costly love that knows no bounds.

We must look for him without ceasing,” the pope’s prepared text emphasized. “Because if he has risen from the dead, then he ...

For his first appearance at Citizens Bank Park as a Phillie against the daunting lineup of the world champions, the performance was enough to let fans gaze, however briefly, toward what October ...

Enid churches will join hands on Good Friday ... The crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Good Friday marks the day the Romans put Jesus to death on a cross before his resurrection in three days' time ...

The liturgy of Palm Sunday is dissonant, almost schizophrenic. It begins with jubilant rejoicing only to end in bitter ...