For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Whether Jesus was held to the cross with nails or with ropes, what matters is that he was ingloriously and brutally killed by ...

Pope Leo XIV greets a child as he rides in the popemobile before celebrating Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 1 ...

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and ...

In the Gospel of John, Thomas, one of Jesus’ disciples, declares he will not believe in the resurrection unless he sees “the mark of the nails” in Jesus’ hands (John 20:25). This reference to nails is ...

Thomas, Jesus respects your need ... Peter and John had extended a hand to the one who had been lame since birth. A person who was sure he was destined just to watch the goings on from the ...

Jesus, played by Jose Vital, a member of St. Thomas of Villanova Church in Palatine ... he said just before rowdy Roman soldiers tied his hands and led him before Roman governor Pontius Pilate ...

Jesus doesn’t explicitly say “nails,” and the Bible does not say Thomas touches Christ’s hands or his feet. García said many scholars also think John was written later—perhaps after ...

Because the Gospel of Thomas contains a large ... he pierced the wall to know that his hand would be sure; then he killed the great man.’ ” “Jesus said, ‘Blessed is the lion which a ...

Thomas was not present. When they told him they had seen the Lord, the apostle said that he would not believe until he touched the wounds of Jesus on his hands and side. Eight days later the Lord ...

the five-year-old Jesus claps his hands and brings the clay figures to life,” the researchers wrote. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, considered heretical by early Church leaders, contains stories ...