A crucifix is silhouetted against a stained-glass window in this illustration photo. (Credit: Mike Crupi/Catholic Courier via CNS.) Listen As we continue our walk through the Church’s month of the ...

Decades of research. Ancient sources. Archaeological evidence. A fresh, evidence-based perspective on Christ’s ...

Most educated, serious Christians understand that suffering is to be expected in the Christian life. It's not an anomaly or interruption in an otherwise “normal” life. It's to be expected; even ...

Public or Private? It was not a question I expected to be asked during a six-week pilgrimage my husband and I made to Spain and Portugal. In Barcelona, I knew that I needed to get to a hospital when ...

Christians can find a strange happiness as we grow in our willingness to face persecution. Christians being persecuted for their faith is a daily reality in contemporary Nigeria. I live in a community ...

In this time of war, many religious officials have encouraged people from various walks of life to turn to God, with even big-time CEOs sending gifts like rosaries to Ukrainians in their time of need.

Dorothy Day gave up smoking for Lent every year. Apparently, this made her so irritable that friends prayed she would take it up again, which she did. Thus the determination to quit the next year, and ...

Over 30 years ago, Dr. Thomas McGovern, a dermatologist, began a personal research project that has given him and many other people a more accurate view of the sufferings of Christ during the ...

This article is the third in an ongoing series on the atonement, following Richard Mouw’s “Violence and the Atonement” [January/February 2001] and Hans Boersma’s “The Disappearance of Punishment” ...

As we continue through the Easter season, today’s readings illuminate the implications and salvation that come from Christ’s suffering on the cross. As we continue to suffer hardships related to Covid ...

Photo by Grant Whitty on Unsplash. Palm Sunday brings to mind the festive reception that met Jesus when he entered Jerusalem. “Behold, your king comes to you, meek and riding on an ass” (Mt 21:5).