The Stations of the Cross, also called the "Way of the Cross," or "Via Crucis," refers to the devotional prayer practice that commemorates the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The ...

The devotion of meditating on the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ by making the Stations of the Cross is a centuries-old tradition. Sometimes described as a “miniature pilgrimage” to ...

Every year millions of people around the world will spend time before Easter praying the Stations of the Cross. Also known as the Way of the Cross, the stations form a sacred meditation that focuses ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis presided over the Way of the Cross at the place where early Christians were martyred, recalling the Passion of Christ. “Christians must respond to evil with good, taking ...

A Madison church is working to ease COVID-19 stress one prayer at a time. First Independent Methodist Church in Madison put up cross with instructions telling those with prayers to write them down and ...

The Vatican is inviting Catholics to pray the Stations of the Cross in St. Peter’s Basilica every Friday during Lent. Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, who is in charge of liturgies and maintenance of the ...

I own and have read dozens, possibly hundreds, of books on prayer. A whole bookcase, right next to my desk, is filled with them: Dom Gregory Dix’s The Shape of the Liturgy, Roberta Bondi’s To Pray and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— On this Good Friday, ...

The cry of Christ on the cross should remind everyone that God always hears their prayers, even when he seems distant, Pope Benedict XVI said Feb. 8. “Let us bring to God our daily crosses, in the ...