As part of my documentary about women in the Church, this week I followed Sr. Helen Prejean as she she worked to save the life of Richard Glossip, a man on death row in Oklahoma. The week began on a grim note. Richard’s execution was only a few days away and there seemed to be no […]
The sun rises as people gather for an ecumenical Easter service in Scituate, Mass., March 31, 2013. (CNS photo/Jessica Rinaldi, Reuters)
A child dressed as an angel walks alongside other women during an Easter Sunday procession in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais March 31,2013. (CNS photo/Pilar Olivares, Reuters)
U.S. President John F. Kennedy, his wife, Jacqueline, and their children, Caroline and John Jr., are seen on Easter Sunday in 1963. (CNS photo/Reuters)
Father Dmytro Dnistrian blesses Ukrainian Easter baskets filled with traditional food for Sunday’s Easter dinner at Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, April 19, 2014. (CNS photo/Todd Korol, Reuters)
Young Iraqi women attend an Easter Mass at a Chaldean Catholic church in Amman, Jordan, April 24, 2011. Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled to Jordan following a spate of bombings that targeted churches in Iraqi cities in the past few years. (CNS photo/Ali Jarekji, Reuters)
Suheir Saliba, left, who is Catholic, eats cheese products to break the Lenten fast with her husband’s Greek Orthodox family on Easter in Jifna, West Bank, April 20, 2014. Christian families in the Holy Land often have members of several different religious denominations. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)
Preschooler Zyrus Manabet, 4, displays grass students grew for their Easter baskets at Holy Name School in Ketchikan, Alaska, April 15, 2016. Students were preparing for Holy Week and Easter with lessons, prayers and activities centered on Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection. Located on Revillagigedo Island, Holy Name is the only Catholic school in the Diocese […]
Worshippers carry a statue of the risen Christ during an Easter procession in Escazu, Costa Rica, April 8, 2012. (CNS photo/Juan Carlos Ulate, Reuters)
Nuns hold candles during the Easter Vigil Mass in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher April 7, 2012. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)