New book also reveals that Pope John Paul had a mean sweet tooth and a temper. Jan. 27, 2010— -- Pope John Paul II, whose world travels helped modernize the papacy, sometimes practiced ancient ...

Responding to acts of extreme corporal mortification during Holy Week, Catholic bishops in the Philippines have discouraged practices such as self-flagellation and crucifixion in favor of more ...

The ritual of flagellation is commonly studied in regards to questions surrounding religion and body. However, this paper looks at the ritual in order to explore the relationship between ritual and ...

103.2 x 127.4 cm. (40.6 x 50.2 in.) A 17th-century copy after a lost painting by Francesco Vanni that was once in the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, of which preparatory drawings and ...

President Biden and the Democratic Party are in the position just about every ruling party finds themselves in as they approach the first midterm election of a presidency: low approval ratings, ...

Last week, my colleague Evan Goldstein and I talked with four longstanding Chronicle Review contributors — Randall Kennedy, Amna Khalid, Holden Thorp, and Keith Whittington — about what Trump’s first ...

The Rosary’s Sorrowful Mysteries pass over a significant expanse of time in silence. From Jesus’ arrest in Gethsemane to the scourging there has occurred: In contrast to all those events, the ...