'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...

Having grown up in the years after Nostra Aetate – the Vatican document rejecting the traditional accusation that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus – I assumed it was a settled issue.

The bust depicts Jesus with long, curling hair, looking serenely outward and stretching out his hand as if in blessing. The renowned Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s famous sculpture "Salvator ...

Editorial Page Editor Rudy Bush writes that America's public discourse must move away from mob mentality toward reason and virtue. Michael Hogue Less than a century before Pontius Pilate washed his ...

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

“We affirm in faith that the Lord walks where you walk, that he journeys at your side,” Cardinal James Michael Harvey said Thursday before a eucharistic procession at Rome’s University of St. Thomas ...

In Matthew's gospel, Jesus' birth is heralded by the heavenly portent of a star rising in the East, which guides certain wise men (or astrologers) who travel from a distant land to Bethlehem to see ...