Critics say American Christianity downplays Christ’s suffering. Two Reformed scholars answer the charge. If non-Western critics are right, American Christians have a skewed view of Jesus. Asian and ...

For nearly a mile and a half, Enrique Linares carried his cross like Jesus Christ. It wasn't easy, he said, as actors playing Roman guards - who to a much lesser degree - whipped his back, laughed at ...

David Mirsch's hypothesis of a clandestine use of drugs to render Jesus comatose on the cross is an ad hoc claim. He offers no supporting data, and the assertion cannot be proven. Beyond that, all ...

Pain is the attention-getting gift that nobody wants. Its signals and sensations alert us to unwelcome events or situations. Pain “plunges like a sword through creation,” writes Evelyn Underhill, ...

If you had told 14-year-old me that I’d be working for a Catholic magazine and writing a reflection for Lent, I would have said you were crazy. At that age, I felt like I had so much faith and nowhere ...

Lent is not just one more liturgical season. It is a time of abundant grace for a new conversion, when God is “purifying us by the sacred practice of penance,” as we pray at Mass during Lent. Most ...

Facebook apologized after it rejected an ad by a Catholic university in Ohio on Good Friday that showed Jesus hanging on the cross. The social media giant labeled the religious image “shocking and ...

Robyn J. Whitaker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

You have to draw close to hear the words, for a crucified man struggles to speak, his lungs crushed under the pressure of his own weight, even as his body screams to him in pain. During these hours ...

Having attended Catholic school for my entire life, I can remember my eyes drifting around my classrooms during particularly uninteresting lessons. A good portion of the time, my drifting eyes would ...

SALISBURY — Approximately 25 people, including adults and children, gathered on the lawn of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on West Council Street at 8 a.m. on Good Friday, April 18, for the Stations of ...