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The Vatican confirmed Pope Francis would preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night, after he decided at the last minute to skip his participation in the Good Friday procession at the ...
ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis appeared on Sunday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for an Easter Sunday blessing, after a brief earlier meeting with Vice President JD Vance.
Francis spoke mostly in Italian, skipping the step of offering Easter blessings in multiple languages, a tradition started by Pope John Paul II. Before the service, Vatican press officials said he ...
-- On a rainy afternoon in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis urged the world to pray for peace and for Christians to be more humble in his annual Easter address. Thousands flocked to the Vatican to ...
According to a May 19 Vatican communique, earlier that morning the pope and Vance held a private meeting, which lasted roughly 45 minutes, beginning around 7:56 a.m. and ending around 8:41 a.m ...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Pope Francis met at the Vatican on Easter Sunday, shortly before the pontiff delivered a sermon urging political leaders to support vulnerable populations.
Following is the official English language translation provided by the Vatican of Pope Francis' Easter Sunday message, delivered in Italian from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica.
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis tempered his Easter Sunday message of Christian hope with a denunciation of “blind” terrorism, recalling victims of attacks in Europe, Africa and elsewhere ...
Vatican Pool/Getty Images. When Pope Francis died, the morning after Easter, prominent right-wing Catholics leapt at the chance to lobby for a more conservative, even Trumpian, leader of the Church.