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Pope asks anti-trafficking nun to write Way of Cross meditations
- Apr 5, 2019
Pope Francis has asked an Italian nun, who has been on the frontlines in the fight against human trafficking, to write this year’s Way of the Cross meditations.
Vatican releases pope’s Lent, Holy Week, Easter schedule
- Feb 26, 2019
Pope Francis and top officials of the Roman Curia will leave the Vatican March 10-15 for their annual Lenten retreat, the Vatican confirmed Feb. 26, but it did not announce who the retreat leader would be.
Pope asks that young people write meditations for Way of Cross
- Mar 8, 2018
In light of this year’s Synod of Bishops on young people, Pope Francis has asked that the Way of the Cross meditations be written by a group of students.
In time of bloodshed, Pope on Good Friday prays for all those ‘struck down’
- Apr 14, 2017
Holy Week 2017 began with terrorist attacks on two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, and included a Good Friday bombing by the U.S. in Afghanistan using the world’s most powerful non-nuclear device. In that context, Pope Francis on Good Friday expressed “shame” before Christ for all the innocent blood shed in today’s world, and prayed that God will comfort all those “struck down” by violence, indifference and war.
Pope asks a woman to write Way of Cross meditations
- Mar 31, 2017
For the fourth time in history, and the first during Francis’s pontificate, a woman biblical scholar has been asked to write the meditations for the Way of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum. Anne-Marie Pelletier, a Ratzinger prize winner, said she feels “lucky” to have this opportunity in a masculine ecclesial world.
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