Pope Francis presides over Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Feb. 14, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 29, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA). For the first time in his 11-year pontificate, Pope Francis has written his own spiritual meditations for Friday’s Via Crucis (Way of the…
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Pope Francis arrives at the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday on April 7, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 29, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Good Friday liturgy commemorates the apex of Christ’s passion with a remembrance of his crucifixion and death at Calvary. The…
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Cardinal Mario Grech and Pope Francis at the conclusion of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 28, 2023. / Credit: National Catholic Register / Vatican Media National Catholic Register, Mar 29, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). If Cardinal Mario Grech held nearly any office other than the one he does, his recent comments in favor…
The custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, walks through empty Bethlehem streets during the solemn entrance to the Basilica of the Nativity on Jan. 6, 2024. / Credit: Marinella Bandini ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 29, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The archbishop of Toledo and primate of Spain, Francisco Cerro Chávez, stressed in…
Nearly a quarter of a century ago (2000), an elderly Chinese man’s death in Stamford, Connecticut, was reported in the media. His name was Ignatius Kung, and he had lived in the United States since 1988. He was born in his native China at the beginning of the twentieth century (1901), and there he had…
This year’s Good Friday will be celebrated amid growing tensions surrounding the issue of antisemitism, and this is for several reasons. The tension in Israel-Palestine has intensified pro- and anti-Israel rhetoric. This has, unsurprisingly, descended into the realm of identity politicking, with many anti-war advocates being labeled antisemitic for their stance against decisions made by…
Crucifixion. / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 29, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis has called God’s mercy “an abyss beyond our comprehension.” “God’s mercy can make even the driest land become a garden, can restore life to dry bones (Ez 37:1-14),” he said in his very first Easter “urbi et orbi” message…
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