The faithful around the world observe Good Friday on Friday, April 7, 2023. Good Friday is the "most solemn day of the year" for Christians, according to the CatholicLink website and many other ...

LEADER: Lord Jesus, as we follow your steps on the day you died for us, spiritually unite us with the reality of your suffering and death, so that we can know you better, love you more, and imitate ...

In the fall, Catholics and some other Christian churches celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross. With the feast, Christians commemorate Jesus Christ’s life, especially his salvific death on the cross ...

Unless a sudden attack of amnesia stripped away your memory, leaving no recollection of where you are in time or space, the next few days will certainly prove to be the most solemn and consequential ...

Discussion of the Atonement involves some of the most complex problems of Christian theology—problems that challenge a theologian’s deepest insights, dialectical skills, and painstaking expression.

Frank Schilling stood at the highest point at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion in St. John on Good Friday overlooking the prayer trail where the Stations of the Cross were being led by the Most Rev.

One of the last things Jesus Christ said on the cross was, "It is finished." (John 19:30) So, what was it that he finished? Well, the Law of Moses demanded a sacrifice for the sins of the people. But, ...

What would it mean for mainline Protestants to understand and appropriate the message of Luther’s 95 Theses? For all the ballyhoo over the centuries, I have come to wonder whether the message has ever ...

“The Glory and the Shame,” the title of Tuesday’s Holy Week luncheon message, sounds incongruous, but that is what the death of Jesus on the cross represented. Being stripped and nailed to a cross was ...