Whereas Matthew’s version of the first beatitude is nuanced, “Blessed are the poor in spirit”, Luke’s is stark: “Blessed are ...

Most dear Jesus, publicly shorn of your garments, and most cruelly scourged at the pillar, have mercy on us, O Lord. Most dear Jesus, crowned with thorns, beaten and blindfolded, clothed in rich ...

A newly designated Catholic cathedral has been bombed by the ruling military regime in Myanmar. According to International ...

We begin in Idaho, where, against all possible odds, they elected a legislature even more wing-nutty than the previous one was. Now that legislature wants public school kids to learn all about the ...

[and] handed [Jesus] over to be crucified. Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak ...

Republican Renae Cowley and Democrat Frank Pignanelli discuss some of the most popular bills in the Utah Legislature: ending ...

One of the Catholic churches has a larger-than-life statue of Jesus hanging on the cross along with the crown of thorns, a spear wound in his side and nails in his feet. What it doesn’t show is the ...

For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the footsteps of the seminary’s patron saint in Greece and Turkey, experiencing ...

Weapons in the temple grounds are forbidden. The Mishnah clearly prohibits a staff, so it is doubtful a whip of the scourging kind would be permitted. Let alone that Jesus would be let back in after ...

Fake products have been targeted on multiple fronts, yet the scourge has stubbornly refused to abate. Counterfeit goods infiltrate every facet of national life, inflicting calamities on citizens ...

Corporate greed, regulated by competition, is the main reason world poverty has dropped — and if a few people got absurdly ...

The 13 premiers and Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are in Washington, D.C. today looking to convince Republicans that U.S.