TX teen walking to DC carrying 12-foot wooden cross

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Junior Garcia was carrying a 12-foot cross along Interstate-30 in Fort Worth and Arlington on Thursday afternoon. He was hard to miss.

“This is my way of showing them Jesus Christ wants a personal relationship with every single one of them,” Garcia said.

The idea came to him last July, when he was attending youth group at the Oasis Church in Saginaw. He said that he realized his Christian [...]

POPE TAKES THE CROSS

ROME (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI encouraged those threatened by unemployment and other economic woes to draw courage and strength from the suffering of the crucified Jesus Christ as the pontiff presided over a Good Friday candlelit Way of the Cross procession at the ancient Colosseum.

Benedict, who turns 85 on April 16, didn’t carry the cross during the hour-long procession itself. Instead, he listened intently to meditations on suffering that [...]