IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert Galbraith, Reuters By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Few people think about it in these terms, even around Easter, but Jesus was tortured as a prisoner before his death on a cross. There’s no other way to characterize the 39 lashes ordered by Pontius Pilate, or the …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Joanne Fox, The Catholic Globe By Joanne Fox SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNS) — Singer-songwriter Tatiana "Tajci" Cameron confessed she didn’t always like Holy Week. "It always seemed to be full of sadness," she told the crowd of more than 500 who gathered April 14 at St. Michael Church, …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media, via Reuters By Junno Arocho Esteves ROME (CNS) — Jesus’ gesture of washing his disciples’ feet, an act once reserved to servants and slaves, is one that all Christians, especially bishops, must imitate, Pope Francis told hundreds of inmates and prison employees on Holy Thursday. "Jesus’ …

Paris, France, Apr 16, 2019 / 08:00 pm (CNA).- When the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Parish caught fire Monday, most predicted the worst. It seemed unlikely the structure could survive, or that some of the treasures inside might be saved. Indeed, a full two-thirds of the cathedral’s roof was …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just as Jesus always sought to be with the people to serve, teach and heal them, so, too, must priests always be in the midst of God’s people, "pouring ourselves out" for them, Pope Francis said. Being with the people …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By PARIS (CNS) — A hero emerging from the Notre Dame Cathedral fire April 15 is Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, who is credited with saving a reliquary containing the crown of thorns and the Blessed Sacrament from the burning cathedral. The …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Ashleigh Kassock for the Catholic Herald By Ashleigh Kassock ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) — In 1957, Sarah Wessel’s great-grandmother, Isabella Brooks, hand-stitched a wedding gown for her daughter Mary Ann Kelsey. After the wedding, the satin gown was wrapped in blue paper and placed in a cedar chest, where …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Carol Glatz By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Countless women and girls are being "crucified" by human traffickers, who trick them into slave labor or prostitution, and by those who seek out their services and exploit them, said the missionary nun who wrote the meditations for Pope …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Goran Tomasevic, Reute By NEW YORK (CNS) — In an April 12 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, the CEO of the Knights of Columbus said that "Christian towns in Iraq increasingly look neither Christian nor Iraqi — but Iranian." "The public identifies the threat against Christians in …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) — The president of France and the archbishop of Paris have vowed to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral after a devastating fire, continuing what a professor of architecture described as the natural lifecycle of a historic building. Steven W. Semes, a professor …