Parishioners gathered at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Harrisburg to mark Good Friday with services, followed by the Stations of the Cross devotion and a procession through the ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis spoke to the throng gathered in St. Peter’s Square for Sunday’s Angelus, encouraging them to follow Christ on the way of the cross.

Pope Francis presides over the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) ceremony with children in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Friday, April 2, 2021.

Vatican City, Apr 18, 2018 / 02:50 am. On Wednesday Pope Francis said that to make the sign of the cross is to mark ourselves as Christians, and that it is something we should do often to remind ...

St. Francis’ meditations on the life of Christ led him to create the first-ever Nativity scene in Greccio, Italy, in 1223. Fresco by Giotto of St. Francis of Assisi embracing the Child Jesus at ...

Perhaps Saint Francis can help. ... as it were, in the cross-fade. And sometimes, sometimes, this can be quite ... Both, both, and both. And when God spoke to him in 1206, his voice issuing ...

Pope Francis, presiding at a Good Friday service, asked God for forgiveness for scandals in the Catholic Church and for the “shame” of humanity becoming inured to daily scenes of bombed cities ...

Vatican City, Sep 8, 2013 / 08:55 am. Pope Francis spoke to crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square for Sunday's Angelus, encouraging them to follow Christ on the way of the cross.