We should sit with the suffering and the abandonment of the cross, with the rejection ... We know that in reaching out his hands to be nailed to the tree, Jesus was reaching out forevermore ...

Mel Gibson warned Jim Caviezel when they first discussed "The Passion of the Christ" that if he took the role of Jesus it could ruin his career, the 56-year-old actor said this week. Caviezel said ...

The exact date of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross has reportedly been "confirmed" by NASA, according to claims that connect biblical descriptions with astronomical data. According to the Bible ...

(RNS) — At the beginning of Holy Week, Christianity Today published an article on the crucifixion that caused a firestorm. In the article, Daniel Silliman described the work of a Bible scholar ...

For me, there are three themes that I draw out of our tradition and that I emphasize in my preaching: solidarity, empathy and gratuitousness. Jesus’ solidarity with all humankind and his empathy ...

When Jesus is shown on the cross, he is almost always depicted wearing a loincloth around his waist. We now know, however, this has more to do with artistic convention than historical accuracy.

LONG BRANCH -- Congregants of Holy Trinity Church of Christ the King Parish took part in the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, one of the most popular devotions practiced by Christians around ...

The thief on the cross next to Jesus waited in suffering ... Yet all at once, Jesus cries out and breathes his last. The ground steadies, the sun shines back through the clouds, and everything ...

The second breathing out, the second aspiration, was on the cross. Jesus breathes out his Spirit, commending it upward to the Father and then downward in his final breath upon the world.

And much of what is trotted out as biblical theodicy ... to separate the teaching ministry of Jesus from his suffering and death,” making the Cross “nothing but a tragic catastrophe ...

PEOPLE GATHERED TO REENACT THE FINAL HOURS OF JESUS’S LIFE. SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WALKED THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD, NOTING THE 14 DIFFERENT STOPS LEADING UP TO HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS.

Mel Gibson warned Jim Caviezel when they first discussed “The Passion of the Christ” that if he took the role of Jesus it could ruin his career, the 56-year-old actor said this week.