Most people picture Jesus’ tomb as a small, empty chamber with a single stone bench, but archaeology tells a very different ...

One candidate for “Golgotha,” as seen from near to East Jerusalem’s Garden Tomb and the Arab bus station there (Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph) Of late, it is has become fashionable in ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction.

In our journey of catechesis on Jesus our hope, today we will contemplate the mystery of Holy Saturday. The Son of God lies in the tomb. But this “absence” of his is not emptiness: it is expectation, ...

The faithful around the world celebrate Holy Saturday on April 8, 2023. Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, is the day that some believe Jesus — his body in his tomb — descended into hell for ...

This Sunday, we celebrate a day like no other. It was the best day ever. It was the day that Jesus was raised from the dead. At sunrise on the Sunday following His death, His friends came to the tomb ...

Pope Francis holds a candle during the Easter Vigil in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 8, 2023. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Despite having skipped a key Holy Week event the night before due ...