In this video I share a powerful Good Friday reflection on what Scripture says about Jesus refusing painkillers on the cross ...

In the Bible, Jesus never explains suffering, but he reaches out to those who are hurting, heals them and ultimately, on the cross, shares and redeems the suffering of all humanity, Pope Francis said.

The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem begins with commemorating Jesus's condemnation by Pilate in the traditional site of Pilate's Praetorium and ends at the Holy Sepulcher with remembering his interment in ...

(RNS) — At the beginning of Holy Week, Christianity Today published an article on the crucifixion that caused a firestorm. In the article, Daniel Silliman described the work of a Bible scholar who has ...

When Jesus is shown on the cross, he is almost always depicted wearing a loincloth around his waist. We now know, however, this has more to do with artistic convention than historical accuracy.

In the summer of 1979, I spent a day at the ecumenical community of Taizé in France. The weather was perfect—cloudless sky, pleasantly warm—and the lawns were lush green. Scattered across them were ...

Why one evangelical Bible scholar thinks the answer might be no. 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 ...

A Reflection for Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I thirst.” There was a vessel filled ...

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” as St. Jerome said, and the hope for any Eucharistic renewal among Catholics in the U.S. depends squarely on them knowing Jesus Christ in the word so ...