The preacher’s weekly challenge—What story shall I tell?—is perhaps less challenging in Holy Week than at any other time except Christmas. The Passion story provides characters, plot, dynamics, and ...

As the Church celebrates Holy Week and recalls in a special way the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Catholics around the world turn to artistic depictions of these events in order ...

From lavish productions to gory barrio dramas, reenactments of the crucifixion and the Via Crucis are doggedly making their way back into the spotlight. A Holy Week Passion Play takes place at San ...

OBERAMMERGAU, Germany — “I shout: ‘Jesus is innocent! Set him free!'” Roswitha Stückl exclaimed in a loud voice, while grinning at her husband, Peter, who plays the Annas, the high priest.

Actor Frederik Mayet portrays Christ at the 2010 Passion Play Theater in Oberammergau, Germany. Mayet has been chosen as one of two actors to portray Jesus this year. The 2022 performance runs May ...

The most prominent Passion play in the world will be performed next year in the Bavarian village of Oberammergau. Will the organizers finally rid the play of inflammatory portrayals of Jews and ...

The U. S. has no Oberammergau, nestling among mountains and presenting every decade a Passion Play to commemorate its deliverance from pestilence.* But many a Roman Catholic parish offers some kind of ...

This is hardly Mel Gibson’s vision of the Passion. Jesus is lashed a mere three times, drawing no blood or even welts. During the Crucifixion, audience members are spared the sight of nails being ...