RNS WAY CROSS

(RNS) Followed by more than 1,500 Good Friday worshippers in 2000, Jessie Rodriguez carries a cross that once stood atop Sacred Heart Church in Aurora, Ill. The scene is part of a “Way of the Cross,” or Via Crucis, procession that re-enacts and commemorates the march of
Jesus to his crucifixion. Religion News Service file photo by Steven Buyansky/The Beacon News.

(RNS) Followed by more than 1,500 Good Friday worshippers in 2000, Jessie Rodriguez carries a cross that once stood atop Sacred Heart Church in Aurora, Ill. The scene is part of a “Way of the Cross,” or Via Crucis, procession that re-enacts and commemorates the march of
Jesus to his crucifixion. Religion News Service file photo by Steven Buyansky/The Beacon News.