Christ was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to be nailed on a Roman cross. The most visible symbol of Christianity is ...

Whatever the historical reasons for the crucifixion, the Christian tradition has always insisted that one of the reasons ...

Welcome to the holiest week of the year. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday. In the Roman Catholic Church, as well as some others, the Palm Sunday reading is the Passion narrative. This year, it’s ...

Q: In the Apostles Creed, we say that Jesus “descended into hell” after he died on the cross. But why would Jesus go to hell ...

The Bible's account of the crucifixion of Jesus contains a puzzling detail: he died on the cross before the two criminals crucified beside him. Now, a medical study examining historical records and ...

I am writing on Holy Tuesday. A couple of houses away, the drummers for the processions of my village, in this corner of the ...

Msgr. Joseph Prior explains the readings for Palm Sunday, which trace the suffering of Christ through Scripture to the crucifixion, where those who witness it come to believe in Him.

According to the Franciscan Friars of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Good Friday is a commemoration of Jesus' death ...

According to the Gospel of John, in his final moment on the cross, Jesus declared: "It is finished" (Jn 19:30). The words might also be translated: "It is fulfilled"; or "It is accomplished"; or "It ...

The crucifixion is apparently under review. In his doctoral thesis, newly graduated Swedish theologian Gunnar Samuelsson argues that the cross Jesus supposedly died on may not actually have been a ...