EAST CHICAGO — Roman soldiers walked the streets of this city Friday, accompanying a falsely accused man to his grisly execution on a cross. The occasion was Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Parish’s ...

Lent is not just one more liturgical season. It is a time of abundant grace for a new conversion, when God is “purifying us by the sacred practice of penance,” as we pray at Mass during Lent. Most ...

The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem begins with commemorating Jesus's condemnation by Pilate in the traditional site of Pilate's Praetorium and ends at the Holy Sepulcher with remembering his interment in ...

If Douglas John Hall is right, the gospel has been almost eclipsed by Christian triumphalism. This theology of glory seeks to know God directly through reason, experience the grace of God without ...

Nellie Quintana was 10 years old when she went to her first Via Crucis with her mother in Pilsen, a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Chicago's Lower West Side. The dramatic reenactment of the ...

"Welcome to the 15th Annual Good Friday 'Walk with the Suffering,'" said Rosemary Johnston from the flatbed of the truck parked in front of the County Health Building on Pacific Highway. "We're going ...

The suffering of Jesus on the cross is, like all human suffering, a shared suffering. That's why Mary is honored under the title "Our Lady of Sorrows." Some people imagine this detracts from Jesus' ...

How many of us can sing by heart the words of the song that starts “Jesus, keep me near the cross”? Can you recall the next few lines? More than just a song, it’s a much-needed prayer for Christians.

Luke 1 and 2 are often described as “the Lukan infancy and childhood narratives”—the stories of Jesus’ birth and early childhood. That description is fine, but as Eugene Peterson has suggested, there ...

Following today’s General Audience in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict addressed a group of children from the "Citta di Speranza" (City of Hope) hospital in Padua, Italy, telling them encouragingly, ...