The crowd watches as Pope Francis leads the Angelus message from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Aug. 8. In his Angelus message, the pope said Jesus is the ...

The Chosen gives us a soundly biblical Jesus in a profoundly biblical world. He’s cast not as an esoteric sage, self-help guru, hippy commune leader or political activist, but as the Lord who knows ...

There is only one narrative that can lay claim to being “the greatest story ever told” and we hear that very phrase, immediately and perhaps predictably, at the beginning of “Jesus: His Life,” the ...

Jonathan Roumie reprises his role as Jesus in The Chosen: The Last Supper, the highly anticipated fifth season of the popular faith-based series. With the first two episodes now on the big screen, ...

The first generation of Jesus’ followers were Scripture-reading Jews who believed that Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection were fulfillments of prophetic predictions that a messiah would one day ...

Dear Saint Joseph of Arimathea, The most striking thing about you is that you were a man of contradictions. Yes, you were a man of faith and we know you from history (namely, the Gospels) as the ...

Even C. S. Lewis was skeptical of searches for the "historical Jesus." And why not? Even before Albert Schweitzer published his The Quest of the Historical Jesus in 1906, many Christians bemoaned such ...

Not too many people would disagree that each day of our lives needs to be lived to the fullest. How this “fullness of life” is achieved is open to many opinions and interpretations. Many people take ...

(Matthew 27:31-35; Mark 15:20-23; Luke 23:26-32; John 19:16-18) The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery overlaps with another Catholic devotion: the Stations of the Cross. The stations, in fact, detail at least ...

"Jesus absolutely treated women differently than the prevailing religious authorities of his time," author Mary Demuth says. RNS: You say that Jesus’ interactions with women were “shocking considering ...