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.

One of the most remarkable things about Jesus’ suffering is his patience. He could have used miracles to make himself impervious to discomfort and to achieve instantaneous results, but he didn’t.

Could fragments of the true cross of Jesus really be among us ... When Helena traveled to Jerusalem in 326 CE the city was still suffering the destruction caused by the last Jewish War in 132 ...

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 Jesus, we see not only the full depth of God’s passion for us and the suffering that was an essential part of it (John 3:16; Eph. 5:2) but also the full depth of perfect human passion for God ...

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.

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.

Following this passive spirituality, the invitation of Jesus to “take up one’s cross” becomes accepting suffering as God’s will. The cross then becomes a tool of subjugating the faithful.

Today’s sheltered youth likely don’t understand Jesus’ suffering, words of compassion A mural depicting Jesus Christ on a wall close to the peace lines, in west Belfast, Northern Ireland ...

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.