Hollywood insiders were convinced that The Passion of the Christ would be a major flop. Mel Gibson’s detractors predicted he would lose the $25 million he personally invested in the film. But only two ...

When Mel Gibson set out to produce a cinematic re-creation of the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ,” he said he was determined to hew closely to the biblical ...

In all the controversy and debate surrounding Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, few are discussing how the film handles gender. In the movie, a woman plays Satan, an unusual approach for serious ...

Actor and singer Jencarlos Canela will play the role of Jesus in a live musical dramatization of The Passion on Palm Sunday. Only he's still not sure how. "How do I prepare for the role of Jesus ...

Jesus, played by Frederik Mayet, encounters his mother in a scene in the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany, which is running from May 14 to Oct. 2. (Credit: CNS photo/Birgit Gudjonsdottir, ...

“People don’t believe in heroes anymore,” Roger Ward whispers to Mel Gibson in the climactic scene of the 1979 shoot-’em-up epic Mad Max. Strangely enough, twenty-five years later, the king of ...

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion is rich in symbolism, liturgical pageantry and an extra Gospel passage at the beginning of mass. This year the Sunday liturgies draw from cycle C readings, which ...

Every version of the Passion story deviates fundamentally from the New Testament, which contains four divergent Gospels rather than one conflated version. The Gospels also emphasize the life before ...

Timing is everything. Jesus’ fatal confrontations with religious and political authorities in Jerusalem coincided with the crowds of pilgrims arriving for Passover. Almost 2,000 years later, attentive ...

In all the controversy and debate surrounding Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” few are discussing how the film handles gender. In the movie, which opened a week ago, a woman plays Satan, an ...

For its musical Palm Sunday TV spectacular take on a Christian passion play – the theatrical retracing of the last days and hours in the life of Jesus – Fox, Dick Clark Productions’ and “Glee” music ...