For half my life I believed that Jesus Christ came into existence 2,000 years ago in a faraway place called Bethlehem. I believed that he was conceived in the womb of his teenaged mother, Mary, in a ...

The prophet Isaiah said it so beautifully, hundreds of years before Jesus’ death: “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity ...

(RNS) — In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the idea of an angry God who needs to be appeased. (RNS) — When he ...

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the spooky sky show ...

Jesus Christ died on Good Friday. According to the Nicene Creed, it was for our sake that he was crucified under Pontius Pilot, suffered death and was buried. Crucifixion was a form of capital ...

The best way to figure out why something absolutely had to happen is to imagine what it would be like if it had happened in some other way. That is what David Gray is doing in a comfortable Geneva, ...

LIMA, Peru — Archbishop Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio of Lima, Peru, has yet to clarify remarks he made in a pre-Christmas Mass that contradict the teaching of the Catholic Church about Jesus’ death.

Mantegna,_Andrea_-_crucifixion_-_Louvre_from_Predella_San_Zeno_Altarpiece_Verona.jpg "The Crucifixion," painted by Andrea Mantegna in 1457-1459 A.D. for the ...