Oscar-winning actor-director Mel Gibson is in Italy working on a film on the passion of Christ at the Cinecittà studios. The movie focuses on the last hours of Christ's life and stars Jim Caviezel ...

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 ...

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, gave a tough assessment today of the plight facing Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land. Speaking in the Josaphat Valley, a short ...

Mt 21:1-11; Is 50:4-7; Ps 22; Phil 2:6-11; Mt 26:14—27:66 The utter improbability of the Gospel is apparently something the early church was eager to proclaim. By worldly standards, the arrival of the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...