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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 been scheduled to attend in person, the Vatican released a communique right at the start of the service March 29…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just before some 1,500 priests, bishops and cardinals renewed their priestly promises, Pope Francis asked them to embrace “compunction,” which he said was “an aspect of the spiritual life that has been somewhat neglected yet remains essential.” Looking at its etymology, he said that “compunction is ‘a piercing of the heart’…
ROME (CNS) — As Pope Francis poured water over their feet, dried them with a towel and kissed their feet, 12 women inmates at Rome’s Rebibbia prison wept. The pope celebrated the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 28 at the women’s prison under a tent set up outside. The 12 women whose feet…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told Catholics in the Holy Land that he knows Holy Week this year is “so overshadowed by the Passion and, as yet, so little by the Resurrection.” In a letter published March 27, Pope Francis told the region’s Catholics that he was remembering all of them in his prayers,…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Contemplating Christ’s passion should inspire Christians to be more patient in the face of their own suffering and trials, Pope Francis said. “There is no better witness to the love of Christ than meeting a patient Christian,” Pope Francis said during his general audience March 27, highlighting the many mothers, fathers,…
WASHINGTON – “Abortion is not health care, and no child should experience such violence,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington. As the Supreme Court of the United States hears oral argument in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Bishop Burbidge, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on…