The traditional 14 Stations of the Cross are: (1) Jesus is condemned to death, (2) Jesus accepts the cross, (3) Jesus falls the first time, (4) Jesus meets His Mother, (5) Simon of Cyrene carries the ...

Why was Jesus persecuted and crucified? Was it because Jewish leaders viewed him as a threat to their teachings, because the people rejected him as a false prophet or because the Romans considered him ...

Editor’s Note: This column was originally posted on July 4, 2014. At 8:45am on Sept. 11, 2001, I was walking into the Magnificat office, 20 miles north of the World Trade Center. My assistant told me ...

An archaeology dig at a Turkey church may have unearthed a sacred relic — a piece of the cross used to crucify Jesus Christ. The religious artifact was found in a stone chest during an excavation at ...

Pope Francis chose French biblical scholar, Anne-Marie Pelletier, to write the meditations for this year's annual Good Friday Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum. A recipient of the Ratzinger Prize ...

The Associated Press recently claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, had tattoos supposedly connected with Christian nationalism and even white ...

A theory known as the Swoon Hypothesis suggests that Christ did not die on the cross, but simply fainted. The Swoon Hypothesis began to gain traction as far back as the 1700s, when historians first ...

A new Christian children's cartoon, "The King of Kings," has been flagged by censors with biblical trigger warnings, cautioning viewers about the depiction of Jesus being "nailed to the Cross." ...