On the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Pope Francis celebrated the Byzantine Divine Liturgy and called Christianity without the Cross worldly and sterile. “Crucifixes are found all around ...

Falling into the temptation of rejecting the cross and choosing a triumphalist form of Christianity leads to a faith that is superficial and sterile, Pope Francis said. Presiding over a Divine Liturgy ...

A 1,400 year old plaque showing a cross is transforming experts' comprehension of Christianity's eastward expansion. Researchers excavating Abu Dhabi's Sir Bani Yas Island discovered the artifact, ...

Mike Wolanin | The Republic Brad Moffatt, left, from HRC roofing, and Matt Gilmore, from Taylor Brothers, remove the cross from atop the spire of North Christian Church in Columbus, Ind., Tuesday, Aug ...

COMMENTARY: Wrestling with the mystery of death and the suffering of innocents can draw us deeper into the meaning of ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Nearly 15 years ago, I had the chance to ask Christopher Hitchens, one of the world’s most prominent critics of religion, a simple question: “What do you think ...

On the surface, Bultmann’s proposal to “demythologize” the New Testament proclamation aims so to express the Word of the Bible that it will be understood and accepted in the present-day situation. The ...

Mike Wolanin | The Republic Brad Moffatt, left, from HRC roofing, and Matt Gilmore, from Taylor Brothers, prepare to remove the cross from atop the spire of North Christian Church in Columbus, Ind., ...

When Edith Stein entered the order of Discalced Carmelite nuns in 1933, she assumed the name of Teresa Blessed by the Cross. What did she mean by the seeming paradox of being “blessed by the cross”?

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed (1 Peter 2:24). Here is Simon Peter’s theology ...