The story of how Jesus Christ came into the world is a cornerstone of the Bible, and indeed of the Christian faith. The ...

Baltazar was undocumented. Federal officials say that made him a criminal. So Operation Tidal Wave deported the church-going ...

Christianity Today published an online article during Holy Week titled, “Was Jesus Crucified with Nails?” The author of this ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

The annual Stations of the Cross milelong walk was quiet but punctuated by screaming Roman soldiers and mocking crowds during the traditional 14 stops, starting with Jesus’ condemnation and ...

A short time ago we remembered the trials of Jesus before the Sanhedrin of the Jewish leaders (Luke 22:66-71), King Herod (Luke 23:6-11), and repeatedly before the governor Pontius Pilate (Luke ...

Jesus is dead. From his heart, pierced by the lance of the Roman soldier, flow blood and water: a mysterious image of the stream of the sacraments, Baptism and the Eucharist, by which the Church ...

Scores of penitents whipped themselves bloody under a scorching Philippine sun while others were nailed to crosses in a polarizing Good Friday tradition drawing the most extreme of Catholic devotees.