One year after the Ciudad Juárez migrant detention center fire, a caravan of approximately 2,000 migrants called "Viacrucis migrante" set out from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula at the start of Holy Week.
The reference to the crucifixion of Christ -- reenactments
For the first time in his 11-year papacy, Pope Francis has chosen to write his own meditations for the Good Friday Way of the Cross service at Rome's Colosseum, the head of the Vatican press office said.
For the service March 29, Pope
Instead of presiding over the nighttime Way of the Cross seated atop a hillside overlooking Rome's Colosseum, Pope Francis followed the service from his Vatican residence, spiritually united in prayer with the 20,000 people gathered outside the ancient amphitheater April 7.
Pope Francis
Be ready for Mass on the Second Sunday of Lent. In this week’s Opening the Word Scripture reflection, Catherine Cavadini discusses Abraham’s journey to come to know God and how God revealed himself to Abraham. In this week’s Gospel, Matthew’s account of
More than 10,000 people gathered outside Rome's Colosseum prayed with Pope Francis for peace in the world, while a Ukrainian and a Russian woman held a cross together during the nighttime Way of the Cross April 15.
People following the Stations of the Cross at Rome's Colosseum this year will find along the Via Dolorosa a message of hope, including with a Russian and Ukrainian family both carrying a cross together at the nighttime ceremony.
"It is not a Way
Pope Francis has asked several families to write the prayers and meditations for his Stations of the Cross service at Rome's Colosseum on Good Friday.
The request comes during the year Pope Francis asked Catholics to dedicate to families and to a rereading
For the second year in a row, Pope Francis led the Way of the Cross from St. Peter's Square rather than Rome's Colosseum because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Torches dotted a long pathway winding from the stage set in front of St.
Knowing that Rome, like all of Italy, would be under varying degrees of lockdown during Holy Week and Easter, Father Luigi D'Errico asked youngsters in his parish to draw illustrations and write a series of reflections on the Way of the Cross.
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For the first time in his papacy, Pope Francis led the Way of the Cross from St. Peter's Square rather than Rome's Colosseum, where it has been held annually for more than five decades. Two rows of torches lit the pathway from