On Sunday night, shortly after 10 p.m., “Gethsemane” was trending on Twitter for the first time since… Well, for the first time ever. Gethsemane is the garden in Jerusalem where Jesus prayed before ...

Editor's note: The following is an exclusive excerpt from the new book Jesus: A Pilgrimage by Jesuit Fr. James Martin, editor at large of America magazine and the author of many books. This excerpt is ...

Throughout October, monks and nuns harvested olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before ...

Photo of the excavation of a Byzantine Church in the Garden of Gethsemane carried out jointly by the Israel Antiquities Authority and students from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. (Credit: Yaniv ...

Recently I sent a question to eminent New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman (see link below). My question: “After stating that Jesus several times predicted for himself a God-willed death, how could the ...

The meal we refer to as the Last Supper having ended, Jesus went with his disciples over the brook, Kidron, to a garden called Gethsemane. Gethsemane was not an unfamiliar place, for they had gathered ...

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Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according ...