The Good Friday march in Chicago included re-enactments of the Last Supper and Crucifixion, along with a call to action to prevent gun violence.

Newness comes easily for infants, but a Lent practiced with intention provides newness for the rest of us.

There are deeper, underlying commonalities that join the two holidays.

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.