On Sunday Pope Francis spoke about the sacrifice of the cross, explaining how as followers of Christ we must embrace suffering, because it is through the suffering and death of Christ that his love is ...

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Christians celebrate Holy Week and Easter to mark the most significant event in human history: the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is God’s mulligan to humanity. The phrase Holy ...

The spot is two miles south and three-quarters of a mile west of the farmhouse, a stretch of country road that Ana has always hated because of its sugar sand, so often found south of the Arkansas ...

Pope Francis touches a cross made with tools during his visit to a building of the industrial area of the Vatican where he celebrated Mass, Friday, July 7, 2017. (Credit: L’Osservatore Romano/Pool ...

Editor’s Note: The Seven Last Words, taped at EWTN April 11, will be broadcast on Good Friday at 5 p.m. Eastern, hosted by Father Raymond J. de Souza. On Good Friday, Catholics keep the custom of the ...

“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Galatians 6:14). Why is the world offended by the cross? Why are ...

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Before Mass begins, I try to converse with whoever might be standing in the back of church. On a weekday without school, that might only be the altar servers. I often ask, “What have you got planned ...