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Vatican opens solemn run-up to Easter with recovering Pope Francis on the sidelines
The Vatican on Thursday opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines, ...
Pope Francis, still recovering, skips Rome's annual Good Friday procession
Pope Francis, still recovering from double pneumonia, did not attend an annual procession on Friday at Rome's Colosseum with ...
Pope Francis’ Easter is going to look a little different this year. Here’s how
Holy Week is a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of events. But as Francis continues to recover ...
JD Vance to spend Easter in Rome amid tiff with Pope Francis
Vance’s visit to the seat of Catholicism during the Church’s holiest days of the year comes under the shadow of his public ...
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Vance and Francis: divergent values but shared ideas
Pope Francis is the spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics who preaches for a more open church and empathy for migrants. The pope, for his part, has worked since his election in 2013 to ...
Pope Francis visits Roman prison after delegating some Holy Week duties
Francis delegated to two cardinals his role in presiding over this weekend's Easter masses, The Vatican Press Office said on ...
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Pope on jail visit before Easter: He’s doing ‘best he can’
A still-convalescing Pope Francis said Thursday he was doing “as best I can” as he visited inmates at Rome’s central jail before Easter. The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff spent about a half hour at ...
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Pope Francis welcomes Gemelli medical teams to the Vatican, thanks them for their care
The 88-year-old Holy Father greeted approximately 70 men and women representing leadership and staff from the hospital.