Vatican

Pope on Easter calls for faster, fairer distribution of COVID vaccines
- Apr 4, 2021
Pope Francis on Easter morning offered words of consolation to all those still struggling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and urged pharmaceutical companies to speed up the production of COVID-19 vaccines amid global delays.

By Elise Ann Allen
At a Covid-limited Easter vigil, Pope insists Jesus ‘is not outdated’
- Apr 3, 2021
During an Easter Vigil celebration in a mostly empty St. Peter’s Basilica due to COVID-19 restrictions, Pope Francis reflected on the passage of the day’s Gospel that speaks of the women who went to Jesus’s tomb to anoint his body, but found it empty because he had risen from the dead.

By Inés San Martín
Pope on Good Friday hears children tell of pandemic losses
- Apr 3, 2021
Pope Francis prayed that people don’t feel lost amid the problems of the pandemic as he listened to children’s poignant accounts of sorrow and loneliness, which provided the motif for an unusual Way of the Cross torch-lit Good Friday procession in St. Peter’s Square.

By Frances D'Emilio

Benedict XVI ‘grateful’ to Pope Francis for year of St. Joseph
- Apr 3, 2021
In a rare new interview with a German newspaper, retired pope Benedict XVI praised his successor’s devotion to St. Joseph, and thanked Pope Francis for instituting a special year dedicated to his namesake.

By Elise Ann Allen

Pope visits Vatican vaccination clinic for the poor
- Apr 2, 2021
Pope Francis visited the Vatican’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Good Friday as volunteer doctors, nurses and pharmacists continued vaccinating the poor, homeless and refugees assisted by charities in Rome.

By Cindy Wooden
Papal Preacher says divisions have ‘wounded’ Catholic Church
- Apr 2, 2021
After reflecting on the biblical meaning of fraternity during the Vatican’s Passion of the Lord, the papal preacher on Good Friday lamented the disunity existing among Catholics.

By Inés San Martín
Pope celebrates Holy Thursday Mass with cardinal he fired
- Apr 1, 2021
In a surprise move, Pope Francis on Holy Thursday celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the private apartment of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who resigned from his post earlier this year at the pope’s request.

By Elise Ann Allen
Celebrating Holy Thursday Mass, Cardinal Re calls for prayers to end pandemic
- Apr 1, 2021
With Pope Francis not in attendance, on Thursday the dean of the College of Cardinals celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper in an eerily empty St. Peter’s Basilica, describing this liturgy as a reminder of “how much we have been loved.”

By Inés San Martín