VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely ...

Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering -- it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside ...

Despite recent hospitalization for pneumonia, Pope Francis, 88, intends to participate in Easter celebrations. Although ...

Lent, the 40-day period of prayer and fasting before Easter, ends this Thursday, April 17, 2025. Holy Week, the most ...

Asked whether the pope would meet with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert who will be in Rome for the Easter ...

For the second year in a row, few foreign pilgrims were in attendance at the traditional Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives into the Old City of Jerusalem due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, called on Christians in the Holy Land to “hope against ...

Pope Francis made another surprise appearance in St. Peter’s Square at the end of Palm Sunday Mass on April 13, starting Holy ...

Pope Francis, still recovering from respiratory infections, made only a brief appearance in the square at the end of Palm ...

The pope spoke to the crowd in St. Peter's Square at the start of Holy Week.

The United States sent condolences to Ukraine after Russian missile strikes on the northeastern city of Sumy killed at least ...

Following a lengthy hospital stay for a critical respiratory problem, Pope Francis greeted parishioners gathered for Sunday ...