A reenactment of the Passion, depicting the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus Christ was staged Friday, April 7, at a Redlands church. The Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church commemorated the ...

Jesus’ sacrificial anguish redefined what it means to suffer with purpose. Palm Sunday marks the day Jesus entered Jerusalem and the beginning of the week of his passion, which, in the context of this ...

A call came to my home one night in late June 2003: “Do you want to see The Passion?” Of course, I did. Everybody in Christendom did. Already that summer, opposing voices in the Catholic Church, in ...

In the powerful movie, The Passion of the Christ, chronicling the end of Christ’s life, Jim Caviezel delivers a nuanced, moody performance that doesn’t deny Jesus’ humanity. It helped that Caviezel is ...

FARGO — Today, across the world, many Christian church sanctuaries are coming to life with Easter lilies and tulips, while “Alleluias” ring out, followed by bold declarations: “Where, o death, is your ...

BAXTER -- The screen went dark and the sold-out theater fell silent. Someone started clapping and the rest of the movie-goers joined in, applauding Mel Gibson's effort to re-create the last 12 hours ...

Across the globe, Christians are commemorating Good Friday, the day of Jesus' crucifixion, with theatrical performances, reenactments of the crucifixion, pilgrimages to holy sites and more. Explore ...

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 ...

It’s been two decades since The Passion of the Christ hit theaters and redefined what Sunday school had been telling us, by giving us a brutal, polarizing, yet wildly successful portrayal of Jesus ...

Michael Miner unwittingly threw down the gauntlet in his March 5 [Hot Type] column on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. A writer in the New York Times had identified “a battle between secular ...