Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter in the ...

Pope Francis is being ... Vatican’s Good Friday service, the pope does not lay prostrate before the altar as he has done in the past. He also does not celebrate the Easter Vigil Mass on April ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

Pope Francis invoked the intercession of the Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace, for those who are the “servants of the security and freedom of their peoples.” “This armed service should be ...

The sisters also explain that sitting near the central aisle in the audience hall or near any barricade in St. Peter’s Square ...

Lorenzo Leuzzi, gathered very early in the morning in St. Peter’s Basilica to attend a Mass presided over by Pope Francis ... The Mass included no photos, no handshakes, only a photocopied leaflet. In ...

The sisters also explain that sitting near the central aisle in the audience hall or near any barricade in St. Peter’s Square will give guests the best chance to see Pope Francis up close.

Most Hodegetria images depict Mary's right hand pointing ... first Mass here on Christmas night in 1538; and St. Francis of Borgia, third general of the Jesuits, who was the first to petition the pope ...