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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholics should take courage in the fact that even as Jesus was dying on the cross, his most agonizing moment on earth, he was praying for them, Pope Francis said Wednesday. Speaking ...

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, ...

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 ...

As Christians around the world mark Good Friday today, they do so in changing times. In an increasingly diverse Christian environment, there is much ambivalence towards what is seen as a strange ...

A catholic observes Good Friday with prayer and penitence at a street in Nakuru City on April 7, 2023. [Daniel Chege, Standard] On the day Jesus Christ died on the cross, many Kenyans were on Good ...

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 ...

How many of us can sing by heart the words of the song that starts “Jesus, keep me near the cross”? Can you recall the next few lines? More than just a song, it’s a much-needed prayer for Christians.

It seems like an easy question to answer: were nails used to affix The Lord to his cross? The Gospels are silent on this moment of the crucifixion, so how do we know it was with nails? If you look at ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – I recently talked to a man who lost his son to drugs. It was a long, painful road literally ending at a dead end. The father raised his son in the church, prayed for years for his ...