To the sophisticated Romans of the ancient world crucifixions were a hum-drum affair. They were as routine as writing a traffic ticket. For instance, in 71 B.C. seven thousand slaves …

St. Kateri Tekakwitha and Venerable Rose Hawthorne, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Ogdensburg, New York ‘It is finished.’

Engraving and Shrine to St. Margaret Clitherow in York, England. On Good Friday 1586, the young English wife and mother chose fidelity to Christ and his Church over her life, …

Eilif Peterssen, “Judas Iscariot,” 1878, National Museum, Oslo, Norway COMMENTARY: On Good Friday, the ‘terrible abyss’ comes into focus: the freedom that leads some to grace and others to betrayal.

Pope Leo XIV discussed the need for diplomacy and the protection of civilians during a telephone conversation this morning with President Isaac Herzog of Israel.

Amid wartime restrictions reminiscent of the COVID lockdowns, only ten Franciscan friars were able to gather to pray the Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem on …