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‘A hurricane of grief’: Contemplating the Passion at Bologna

March 30, 2024

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Bologna, ask for ragù, but absolutely do not ask for it with spaghetti. Despite a certain dish being Italy’s best-known export since the Roman Empire, Sophia Loren, a few years ago the then-Mayor of Bologna, Virginio Merola, launched a culinary-awareness campaign in which he described

‘The Passion of Jesus’ returns to Trafalgar Square on Good Friday

March 26, 2024

A full-scale re-enactment of the Passion of Jesus is returning to Trafalgar Square this Good Friday in central London. First performed in 2010 by the Wintershall company, the open-air The Passion of Jesus production, commemorating the day Jesus was arrested, tried and crucified by the Romans, before miraculously rising from the dead on Easter Sunday;

The Politics of the Passion

March 30, 2021

Pilate came to flex imperial muscle. With a little shock and awe, he came to Jerusalem to remind the Jews that their primary identification was as Roman subjects.

Scottish aristocrat to take Vatican backed Passion play to notorious Italian prison

January 04, 2016

Sir Jack Stewart-Clark will take a dramatisation of the last days of Christ to one of Italy’s biggest prisons

The importance of the Sign of the Cross must not be lost

May 29, 2014

St Francis de Sales wrote with clarity about the extraordinary power of an apparently basic gesture

One thing is clear: someone was to blame for Christ’s death. It was no accident.

March 22, 2013

During Holy Week, we should blame the sins of the world for Christ's death while remembering he freely laid down his life for us