The ancient Greek roots of the cross symbol, its significance in cosmology, religion, and philosophy, long before ...

Why was Jesus persecuted and crucified? Was it because Jewish leaders viewed him as a threat to their teachings, because the people rejected him as a false prophet or because the Romans considered him ...

An archaeology dig at a Turkey church may have unearthed a sacred relic — a piece of the cross used to crucify Jesus Christ. The religious artifact was found in a stone chest during an excavation at ...

The Associated Press recently claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, had tattoos supposedly connected with Christian nationalism and even white ...

Editor’s Note: This column was originally posted on July 4, 2014. At 8:45am on Sept. 11, 2001, I was walking into the Magnificat office, 20 miles north of the World Trade Center. My assistant told me ...

A theory known as the Swoon Hypothesis suggests that Christ did not die on the cross, but simply fainted. The Swoon Hypothesis began to gain traction as far back as the 1700s, when historians first ...

From three little verses in John has come a rich tradition of song and art. Alone among the evangelists, it is John who informs us that "standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's ...