Apr 26, 2024 Pope Francis says "peace is never made with weapons" at Easter Sunday mass Due to health concerns, Pope Francis had skipped the Palm Sunday homily last week and decided at the last minute to stay home from the Good Friday procession at the Colosseum. ...
Pope Appears in Better Health Ahead of Busy Easter Schedule More Reuters Pope Francis attends the weekly general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican, March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli By Alvise Armellini VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, whose frail health has been a grow...
ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis on Sunday presided over an Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square and later used his Easter message on Christianity's holiest day to invoke prayers for victims of war and to call for an end to ongoing conflicts. Francis delivered h...
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Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, Pope Francis led some 30,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. Francis presided over Easter Sunday Mass in a flower-decked St. Peter...
Pope Francis, huge crowd joyously celebrate EasterBy FRANCES D'EMILIO
Good Friday (Friday before Easter Sunday.) Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross. The Pope leads a procession at the Colosseum at 9pm. NO TICKETS required for this. Holy Saturday (one day before Easter.) Pope Francis holds mass called "Easter Vigil" at 8:30pm in Saint Peter's Basilica. Ea...
Pope Francis urged Sri Lankan authorities on Monday to reveal who was behind the country’s 2019 Easter bombings in an attack the island’s Catholics suspect was a plot to propel President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power. While meeting with a delegation of over 60 victims of the Easter Sunday a...
Pope Francis in his traditional Easter Sunday address denounced as “scandalous” how armed conflicts continue to rage even as the coronavirus pandemic has triggered severe social and economic suffering.
Francis had been due to celebrate Palm Sunday this weekend, kicking off the Vatican’s Holy Week observances: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil and finally Easter Sunday on April 9. He has canceled all audiences through Friday, but it wasn’t clear whether he could keep the Holy...