"Peace is never made with weapons, but with outstretched hands and open hearts," Francis said from the loggia overlooking the square, to applause from the wind-swept crowd below. Francis appeared in good form, despite having celebrated the 2½-hour nighttime Easter Vigil just hours before. T...
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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 growin...
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 hi...
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Francis' appeal comes a week after Russian-backed Syrian forces launched a series of deadly airstrikes and artillery fire on besieged Easter Ghouta enclave, which sits just northeast of Damascus. Home to some 400,000 people, Eastern Ghouta is the last rebel-held area east of Damascus and ...
Pope Francis leads Catholics into Lent with the Ash Wednesday mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis led the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics into Lent on ...
On Easter, which Pope Francis said celebrates the life given to humanity through the resurrection of God’s son, he lamented “how much the precious gift of life is despised” today. “How many children cannot even be born?” he asked. “How many die of hunger and are deprived...
The washing of feet was a radical act in Jesus’ time. It is no less radical in the modern era, with Pope Francis’ decision to break with the long-standing papal tradition of washing only priests’ feet, to include women and non-Christians in the symbol