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Pope leads ‘Way of the Cross’ service in deserted St. Peter’s Square
- Apr 10, 2020
Shortly after assuring of his closeness amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak on an Italian television program, Pope Francis on Good Friday yet again appeared in a nearly empty St. Peter’s Square to lead a livestreamed Via Crucis with meditations written by prisoners.

By Elise Ann Allen
Pope highlights prisoners’ unique ‘Way of the Cross’ on Good Friday
- Apr 10, 2020
Meditations for Pope Francis’s “Via Crucis” ceremony on Good Friday were written by prisoners and their families, as well as crime victims and their families.

By Elise Ann Allen
Prisons’ Passion: Via Crucis meditations reflect on aftermath of crime
- Apr 3, 2020
While Pope Francis’s Way of the Cross service on Good Friday has been transferred to the Vatican because of the coronavirus pandemic, the meditations focus, as always, on those who share the pain, suffering and heartbreak that characterized Christ’s passion and death.

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Pope asks prison community to compose Via Crucis meditations
- Mar 10, 2020
Pope Francis has asked the prisoners, guards and the chaplain of a northern Italian prison to write this year’s Way of the Cross meditations.

By Junno Arocho Esteves
Via Crucis in Mumbai addresses abuse scandal in Church
- Apr 19, 2019
Catholics in Mumbai reflected on the abuse scandal facing the Church during a Via Crucis in the city’s historically-Christian Bandra neighborhood.

By Nirmala Carvalho
Nun: Colosseum Via Crucis reflections to show Christ is ‘still suffering today’
- Apr 17, 2019
Sister Eugenia Bonetti says that her reflections for the Way of the Cross will show the way in which Jesus is still suffering today.

By Christopher White

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