I was asked the following question: Pope Benedict XVI, in his book, Jesus of Nazareth, wrote that our Lord in Gethsemane, was very afraid. Now my question is this: He always told His disciples not to ...

Readings: Matthew 21:1-11 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippian 2:6-11 Mathew 26:14, 27:66 Palm Sunday is the most disjointed day of the church’s year. Its liturgy begins so joyfully only to conclude most woefully ...

32 And they went to a place which was called Gethsem'ane; and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed ...

“In this drama of Jesus’ agony, of the anguish of death, of the opposition between the human will not to die and the divine will which offers itself to death, in this drama of Gethsemane the whole ...

“An angel comforting Jesus before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane,” Carl Bloch, 1873 (Wikimedia Commons) “He knew. He had to have known.” A parishioner, recently returned from the Holy Land, ...

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The bishop of Brooklyn said he will never pray the Stations of the Cross, say the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, or read the passion narratives in the same way again, since he saw Mel Gibson's ...

Why evangelicals are cheering a movie with profoundly Catholic sensibilities. In the history of modern evangelical enthusiasms, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ seems to be joining WWJD ...

In Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Jesus gets hauled into an open courtyard and whipped by Roman soldiers who carry on their task with a laughing gusto that goes, to put it mildly, beyond the ...