Before Christ, the cross was not only a symbol but also a form of capital punishment. The cross on top of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 532 Market St., Parkersburg. (Photo by Art Smith) ...

When is a cross not a Christian symbol? When the Supreme Court says it isn’t. Even as Michael Cohen dominated the news on Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about a 40-foot cross on ...

Owen said the modern battlefield cross symbolizes each modern war, with the pair of boots for soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq; the rifle, a carbine, symbolizes World War II and Korea.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said a 40-foot, 16-ton Latin cross war memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland, can stand, upholding the constitutionality of a religious symbol on public land, but ...

Today, the cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. It was not always so. In the early centuries after the time of Jesus Christ, there were other symbols: a dove, a ship, an anchor and a lyre.

His cross, blood soaked and embedded with scourged skin, was a symbol of the rebellion of love and nonviolence against earthly power and its vanities. He did not resist. He said to his enemies, in ...

It’s the — the cross is the — is the most common symbol of — of — of the resting place of the dead, and it doesn’t seem to me — what would you have them erect?

The Peace Cross is, of course, a cross, but it is more than a religious symbol. It is a magnificent reminder of the peace for which 49 Prince George’s County men gave their lives.