Friday was celebrated by Christians around the globe as Good Friday, and Holy Cross Parish in Springfield was among several ...

Holy Cross welcomes all to its Easter Vigil on Saturday night, which includes a bonfire, candles and baptisms, and to three services on Easter Sunday. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel ...

This tradition, which dates back more than 150 years, involves pilgrims praying the rosary as they climb the church's steps.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Holy Cross Tigers defeated the Pope John Paul II Jaguars, 11-3, on the final day of the high school baseball regular season. Roux Guerra led the Tigers’ hit parade ...

MT. ADAMS, Ohio (WKRC) - Thousands of people are praying the steps at Holy Cross Immaculata Church in Mt. Adams. It's been a tradition for more than 150 years. Cincinnati's newly installed ...

This year, the observance of Holy Week begins on April 13 to April 20. In the Philippines, the Catholic faithful commemorate this sacred week by praying, reflecting, by penitence, or by doing a panata ...

The procession began at St. Rose of Lima Church, where a church member, dressed in white robes and wearing a crown of thorns, carried the cross through the streets of Kensington to Holy Spirit Church.

A total of 4,905 individuals have so far received medical assistance from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) during its nationwide operations for the Holy Week. Majority or 4,529 of the figure underwent ...

A stone quarry outside the walls of Jerusalem, later abandoned and converted into a cemetery with rock-cut tombs and cultivated areas — that’s what the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher looked ...

Participants carried a large wooden cross through Kingsport, singing hymns and playing a zither on the streets. Many followed behind while holding palm branches to represent Holy Week.

According to tradition, a part of the Holy Cross was discovered by the mother of the emperor Constantine, St. Helen, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 326. A fifth century account describes this ...

I propose that a particularly relevant image for our time is the helplessness of Jesus on the cross. The cross was not simply torture, humiliation and shame; it was also total and abject helplessness.