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The custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, anoints the statue of Jesus on the Stone of Anointing during the ceremony known as the “funeral procession” on Good Friday night 2024. According to the tradition and the Status Quo, on the evening of Good Friday — both Catholic and Orthodox — the rite of…
Vice President J.D. Vance shares a moment of laughter with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, during their meeting at the Vatican on Holy Saturday, April 19, 2025. / Screenshot / Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Apr 19, 2025 / 07:35 am (CNA). Vice President J.D. Vance of the United States was received at the…
Joseph Lovskiy (left), the only Catholic in his Russion Orthodox family, with his wife (right) and their youngest son, a Russian Orthodox priest, and his family. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Joseph Lovskiy Rome Newsroom, Apr 19, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Two families of mixed Catholic and Orthodox Christian members are looking forward to…
Above: New York Easter parade on Fifth Avenue. April of 2025 has a great many holidays and momentous events to remember. April 18 and 19 are the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy in Massachusetts, and so shall usher in the beginning of our national Semiquincentennial. This year, however, those days…
Caesar, like the poor, is always with us. So is Judas. And so are the disciples of Christ. The Tyrant, the Traitor, and the Martyr. These three types of men form the very threads from which the tapestry of history is woven. Caesar and his followers come in many philosophical shapes and many ideological guises,…
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Sts. Peter and Paul, the patron saints of Rome, guard the entrance to Ponte Sant’Angelo, welcoming pilgrims as they begin their journey toward St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Apr 18, 2025 / 15:10 pm (CNA). Each year, thousands of faithful pilgrims purposefully pass over the Tiber River via Rome’s Ponte Sant’Angelo,…
Thousands of faithful gather outside Rome’s illuminated Colosseum for the traditional Good Friday Way of the Cross ceremony on April 18, 2025, where Cardinal Baldassare Reina led the procession featuring Pope Francis’s meditations on divine mercy and human fragility. / Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot CNA Newsroom, Apr 18, 2025 / 18:05 pm (CNA). Against the ancient…
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