DAVENPORT, Iowa – Jesus likely died from excessive blood loss, a Catholic surgeon said April 4 during a talk that examined the 18 hours of Christ’s passion and crucifixion from a medical perspective.

When Jesus felt he was alone like never before

Embracing with love our Lenten penance

Abrazando con amor la penitencia del tiempo cuaresmal

Second in a series

First in a series

To die on the cross, Jesus needed his mother’s company

A few weeks ago, the attention of the world was riveted to a deserted beach in northern Libya, where a group of twenty one Coptic Christians were brutally beheaded by masked operatives of the ISIS movement. In the wake of the executions, ISIS released a gruesome video entitled “A Message in Blood to the Nation of the Cross.”