In liturgically celebrating the truth and power of the passion narratives, however, we must be equally energetic in proclaiming, as did Pope John Paul II on the Auschwitz anniversary: “Never again anti-Semitism!”

Good Friday may be a somber day, but it does not necessarily have to be a perfectly sober one.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that man was a microcosm of the world, imbued with meaning.

Leonardo da Vinci suggests that what did happen is what had to have happened.

Our lives are a series of little Good Fridays, Holy Saturdays and Easter Sundays.

We are all part faithful, part faithless.