In John’s Gospel, Jesus is quite clear about his destiny and identity. He walks straight toward suffering, chooses to carry his own cross (19:17), and says that “whoever serves me must follow me” ...

The cross calls Christians not to domination but to identification with the suffering and weak of the world. Hall’s critique is a much-needed corrective to contemporary trends in world religion.

Jesus would then recapitulate and go beyond what happened to Israel the same way in the Suffering Servant passage that he did the prophetic statement found in Hosea 11:1, “When Israel was a ...

Jesus’ suffering and death on the cross can be viewed as a triumph and a tragedy, the cross is a punishment and a victory, the cross is a source of hope and a source of despair, ...

For nearly nine centuries, the Church refused to show Jesus’s cross. And it ... of more men and women who will walk with those who suffer and who will acknowledge their own roles in such suffering.

Each Catholic church displays the 14 Stations of the Cross that depict Jesus’ journey to Calvary. ... I realized that each person there played a critical role in Jesus’ suffering.

A MY WORD column by William D. Niepert, “An old preacher’s Good Friday expression of faith,” contained a statement refuted by the Scriptures: ” . . . the Roman Centurions br… ...

In July of 2013, the oldest of Jesus relics stories rose again when Turkish archaeologists discovered a stone chest in a 1,350-year-old church that appeared to contain a piece of Jesus’ cross.

Jesus and Jehohanan: An Archaeological Note on Cruxifixion Archaeological discoveries offer new information about the Roman practice of crucifixion." by Reverend Dr. J. H. Charlesworth from ...

Jesus, played by David Madriz, is nailed to the cross in the 11th station of Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, Friday in East Chicago. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church commemorates Good Friday with the ...