The Pope holds Holy Chrism Mass at 9:30 inside Saint Peter's Basilica. 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 ...
Concern over abandonment threaded through his homily. "Entire peoples are exploited and abandoned; the poor live on our streets and we look the other way; migrants are no longer faces but numbers; prisoners are disowned, people written off as problems," Francis said. The pope also referred to...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of faithful in bidding farewell to Benedict XVI at a rare requiem Mass Thursday for a dead pope presided over by a living one, ending an unprecedented decade for the Catholic Church that was t...
Pope EmeritusBenedict XVIwas laid to rest Thursday in Vatican City in the first funeral ever conducted by a sitting pope for his predecessor.Pope Francis, who has led the Catholic Church since his election in 2013, following Benedict's surprise resignation, led the funeral Mass. T...