Crucifixion remains a familiar idea, even though it’s a punishment from the distant past. It’s so familiar that we no longer consider of the physical realities of it. Those realities are some of the ...

Almost 2,000 years after his death, the man's skeleton still had a two-inch nail piercing its foot. The skeleton has a nail piercing its foot, perhaps the best-preserved archaeological evidence of ...

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In 1936, the French surgeon Pierre Barbet published his medical book A Doctor at Calvary in which he describes taking a recently amputated arm and driving a nail into it in order to understand the ...

Glasgow theology students have been warned about brutal crucifixion images. But such paintings remind us of the grisly truth about death Glasgow University is giving theology students what the Daily ...

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the spooky sky show ...

For all of our lives, we Catholics have been gazing at Crucifixes. We see them at home, in school, at the hospital, in movies, and in our Churches. Many different presentations of Christ on the cross ...

There has been some talk recently about a new book by Cambridge University professor Colin Humphreys that proposes the Last Supper was held on Wednesday of Holy Week (GET IT HERE), rather than on ...

A man playing the role of Jesus Christ during Holy Week in the Philippines was crucified for the 33rd time on Good Friday. It’s part of a controversial Easter tradition in the country where people ...