SCRIPTURES & ART: Our suffering is tailor-made for our capacities, and by it we grow in holiness when we join it to the suffering and cross of Christ. Barna da Siena, “Christ Bearing the Cross, With a ...

Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, 'Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, ...

The Jewishness of Jesus has seldom been rendered more clearly in art than in the crucifixion scenes of Marc Chagall. Although he was not the only Jewish artist to focus on the crucifixion, Chagall ...

Today is Good Friday, and Christians around the world are marking the occasion with fasting and prayer, many devoting themselves to the Stations of the Cross, which commemorate the suffering and death ...

One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection - a sixth century reliquary containing what is revered as fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified - has been restored to ...

Editor’s Note: The following are excerpts from God’s Wounds: The Remarkable Truth of Those Who Bore the Signs of Christ’s Passion (Catholic Answers Press) by Register contributor John Clark; the book ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Mia Tavonatti's ArtPrize 2011-winning piece, "Crucifixion," was conceived for a church. Now the $250,000 prize-winning piece has returned to a sacred space. Cornerstone University ...

The physical appearance of Jesus Christ remains a mystery. No description of what Jesus looked like is included in the New Testament, and there are no skeletal or bodily remains on which to perform a ...