Catholic News AgencyWomen from Ukraine and Russia hold the cross at Rome’s Colosseum April 15 during the Vatican’s Way of the Cross service. The meditation…
L’Osservatore RomanoPope Benedict XVI on Aug. 28, 2010. The last time Benedict’s birthday fell on Holy Saturday was 1960.
Daniel Ibáñez/CNADutch flowers decorate St. Peter’s Square for Easter Sunday Mass 2019. Before the start of the long drive on April 12, the flowers were…
JOE KLAMARPeople light candles as they celebrate the Holy Saturday Easter vigil in the Catholic Church of St. Mary of Snows in Bratislava, Slovakia, on…
National Catholic RegisterPope Benedict XVI holds the Pascal Candle at the Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica April 7, 2012. The Pope Emeritus will…
National Catholic RegisterPapal envoy Cardinal Konrad Krajewski prays at a mass grave in Ukraine on Good Friday on April 15. The Holy See Press Office…
Daniel IbáñezCardinal Raniero Cantalamessa preaches at the Good Friday liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 15. Homily focuses on Christ the Truth.
Anonymous, “Christian Martyrs Of Nagasaki,” 17th century On a Lenten Friday in 1614, the Tokugawa scourge arrived in Chikuzen, Japan.
Thomas CoexA man walks with a camel on the Mount of Olives, from where the Temple Mount and Church of the Holy Sepulcher can usually…
The Epitaphios Every Catholic should experience the Great and Holy Friday Burial Vespers in the Byzantine tradition at least once in their lives.