Worshippers and onlookers follow the annual Via Crucis procession down 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood, April 18, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) Eduardo Bahena portrays Jesus in the ...

During its first 15 centuries, Catholic Christianity did not have the printing press and its ease in transmitting ideas via publications. The average person did not have books and other documents and ...

Nellie Quintana was 10 years old when she went to her first Via Crucis with her mother in Pilsen, a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Chicago's Lower West Side. The dramatic reenactment of the ...

The Vatican adapted Pope Francis’ Way of the Cross on Good Friday after an outcry in Ukraine over a Station involving Ukrainian and Russian families. The meditation for the 13th Station, “Jesus dies ...

COMMENTARY: What was present last week on College Street in Australia was a dramatic public witness of the cross of Christ not in life, but in death. Family and members of the Church form a procession ...

Youth volunteers in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental will play characters in a live portrayal of the 14 Stations of the Cross. The reenactment of the passion and death of Jesus Christ is set on Good ...

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The Via Crucis is represented by 14 stations each depicting a significant moment of Christ’s Passion on the path to Golgotha. Traditionally placed within churches or along pilgrimage routes, each ...