Photo of the excavation of a Byzantine Church in the Garden of Gethsemane carried out jointly by the Israel Antiquities Authority and students from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. (Credit: Yaniv ...

With so many people dying alone due to the coronavirus, they need our prayers. We can appeal to all the angels and saints — our family in heaven — to intercede and pray with us to Jesus Christ our ...

Editor's note: The following is an exclusive excerpt from the new book Jesus: A Pilgrimage by Jesuit Fr. James Martin, editor at large of America magazine and the author of many books. This excerpt is ...

The meal we refer to as the Last Supper having ended, Jesus went with his disciples over the brook, Kidron, to a garden called Gethsemane. Gethsemane was not an unfamiliar place, for they had gathered ...

We must put to death the idea that we were ever the ones in control. Today, I sat with a friend whose daughter died last year at just 11 days old. The death of a child is a pain so unbearable that ...

I was asked the following question: Pope Benedict XVI, in his book, Jesus of Nazareth, wrote that our Lord in Gethsemane, was very afraid. Now my question is this: He always told His disciples not to ...

In 2019, Passjoni – Merging Art and Faith, gave readers an overview of the statues that make up the Maltese islands’ many Good Friday processions. Now, a second book in the series, titled Passjoni – ...

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus utters his agonizing prayer, “Abba, Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me; yet, not what I want, but what you want.” At this grave moment ...