Tag: Pope Francis

“Urbi et Orbi” means “To the City [of Rome] and to the World.” It is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope on special occasions.

Pope Francis presides over the Easter Sunday mass at St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on Sunday, April 17.

Live from St. Peter's Basilica, we bring you this year's Easter Vigil Mass. Easter Vigil is the first official celebration of the Resurrection of...

Pope Francis leads the Way of the Cross in front of a packed crowd in the Colosseum on Friday, April 15, 2022 (Rome time).

Pope Francis is leading this year's Easter celebration with large numbers of people expected to attend the Holy Week ceremonies for the first time since the pandemic

“It will be a Church that is more spiritual, poorer, and less political: a Church of the little ones.”

Pope Francis described Christ’s action as “a strange thing” in this world: “Jesus washing the feet of the traitor, the one who sells him”

Pope Francis encouraged priests to set their temptations before Jesus, so that they can acknowledge them and reject them

Pope Francis continues a custom he started in 2013, shortly after becoming pope, of celebrating the Holy Thursday liturgy in a prison

Pope Benedict XVI was born in 1927, also on Holy Saturday, in Marktl, Bavaria. He led the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013.