A giant Christian cross is set to go up in downtown Chicago just in time for the Easter holiday.

Today's "builders of Babel" are constructing a hell on earth, Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.

The sixth word from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake.

The tradition dates as far back as 601 AD, when 64th leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory cemented the Lent as ...

Good Friday, a Christian holiday commemorating Jesus Christ's crucifixion, is a day of reflection and mourning. The name ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, ...

In a world besieged by the violence of impatience, the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus show us how to enter into the patience ...

Jesus prays Psalm 22, which begins with the words ... very place where he seems definitively vanquished and absent. The Cross of Jesus is a cosmic event. The world is darkened, when the Son ...

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

Jesus meets his mother on the way of the cross during one of tradiional street ... preparing props, and praying together before every show. “This is our ‘panata’ [personal vow to God ...

ROME (CNS) -- Today's "builders of Babel" are constructing a hell on earth, rejecting everyone they decide are "losers," Pope ...

Each of the 14 stations of the cross represents a different moment in the story of Jesus’ death, and it’s customary to pray and meditate at each milestone. Andy Cadet, 21, left, and Kevin ...