Elsewhere Jesus tells his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” So which one is it? An easy yoke or a heavy cross?

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light’” (Matthew 11:28-30). Those townfolk listening to Jesus would have been familiar with “yoke,” a connecting wooden crosspiece that farmers ...

What if Jesus’ cross really is a healing burden? John tells us, in the gospel read at the liturgy for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, that God did not send the Son to judge the world — krino, in Greek.

You carried your own Cross and you ask us to follow you on this path (cf. Mt 10:38). Help us to take up the Cross, and not to shun it. May we never complain or become discouraged by life's trials.

On Friday, a heavy wooden cross, 12 feet in length, will be dragged through Denville for a distance of more than 2 miles — an agonizing task for anyone, as it was for Jesus. But Maddie happens ...

St. Peter's Church in Lucerne, Switzerland is using an AI hologram of Jesus to take confessions from worshippers, ... “I was surprised, it was so easy, and though it’s a machine, ...