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Thousands trek through New Mexico desert to adobe church for Good Friday

For generations, people of the Upper Rio Grande Valley and beyond have walked to reach El Santuario de Chimayó to commemorate Good Friday.

A tone-deaf Good Friday tweet from US embassy at Vatican: Curb illegal immigration

The US’s official X account at the Holy See trumpeted the Trump Administration’s immigration policy as JD Vance arrives in Rome

Vice President JD Vance attends Vatican's Good Friday service

Vice President Vance attended the Passion liturgy with his wife, Usha, and their three young children. 

Bangladesh youth lead Way of the Cross on a rainy Good Friday: Photo essay

Hundreds of Catholic faithful gathered April 18 at Dinajpur Cathedral in Bangladesh to take part in the annual Way of the Cross, organized and performed by the youth of the parish to commemorate Christ's suffering.

NCR recipes for Lent: Pesto

When I eat this family pesto recipe, I am always transported back to my mom's kitchen on Good Friday at about 5 p.m., right after church.

Before the cross, we do not explain. We tremble.

Good Friday, NCR's Michael Sean Winters writes, reminds us that Jesus did not only confront injustice and sin but death itself, and he did all this on our behalf. 

Acknowledging grief and Christ's victory this Holy Week

We have all experienced loss and grief and death. Why is it so easy to take Jesus' crucifixion for granted? How should we acknowledge his sacrifice during this Holy Week?

Martha Hennessy on grandmother Dorothy Day's activism, canonization

Listen: In this week's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear interviews a granddaughter of the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement.

Editorial: President Trump's modern Golgotha for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

In the shadow of the cross before us, where our faith calls us to ponder the vulnerable Jesus and the Christ of the marginalized, our government has erected a modern Golgotha for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 

Bishop Evelio Menjivar: It is time to speak out against the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants

For weeks now, the federal government has pursued a "shock and awe" campaign of aggressive threats and highly visible operations of questionable legality that go far beyond mere immigration "enforcement."