ROME (CNS) -- For the second year in a row, Pope Francis followed the nighttime Way of the Cross service from his Vatican residence as 25,000 people gathered outside Rome's Colosseum. While he had ...
Pope Francis urged his priests on Thursday to avoid “clerical hypocrisy” and treat their flocks with mercy as he delivered a ...
Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 incarcerated women from his wheelchair to mark Maundy Thursday. The 87-year-old pontiff, who often pleads for compassion to prisoners, visited the Rebibbia ...
ATLANTA - Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock is set to meet with the Pope this weekend. The senior pastor of historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta is part of a congressional delegation to Rome ...
On Holy Thursday, Pope Francis presided over a chrism Mass at which more than 1,880 priests, bishops, and cardinals renewed the promises made at their ordinations. Pope Francis encouraged the ...
A strong-looking Francis presided over a Holy Thursday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica during which the oils for church services are blessed. Later in the afternoon, he travels to Rome’s main ...
Servers carry an urn of sacred oil during Pope Francis’s Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 6, 2023. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In his first major liturgy for Holy Week ...
Expressing closeness to the pain that imprisons these areas of the world, the pope urged the faithful to think of the ...
During the Good Friday liturgy at the Vatican, presided over by Pope Francis, the papal preacher reflected on the triumph of the cross, noting that it is an event that changed the universal ...