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CHICAGO (WGN) — A group of (30) Illinois mayors recently ventured overseas to the Vatican to meet Pope Leo.
Matteson Mayor Sheila Chalmers-Currin, also the president of the Illinois Municipal League, led a delegation of Illinois mayors to Rome for an exclusive meeting with the first American pope. The group departed on March 28 and…
(RNS) — Restrictions imposed by Israel against large gatherings due to the Iran war is casting a long shadow on Easter celebrations, but Palestinian Christians may be feeling it most acutely.
JDEIDEH, Lebanon (AP) — Since hostilities erupted last month between Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group — in the shadow of the wider, U.S.-Israeli war on Iran — over 1,400 people have been killed in Lebanon, and more than 1 million have been forced to flee their homes.
At the culmination of his first Holy Week as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV leads the Easter Sunday Mass and delivers his Urbi et Orbi blessing at the Vatican. Tune in at 4:15 pm (Manila time), April 5.
Latin American Catholics are observing this year's Holy Week by participating in numerous activities and processions commemorating the Passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Cardinal Jose Advincula, archbishop of Manila, leads the Easter Vigil at 8 pm on Black Saturday, April 4
'I kind of like to say I'm just a missionary playing basketball,' says two-time UAAP champion Mike Phillips as he professes his faith through the sport
Pope Leo XIV made history this Good Friday by being the first pontiff in decades to carry a wooden cross for all 14 Stations of the Cross.
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Good Friday brings hundreds of people to watch the Via Crucis in Pilsen.
The Cristo de Mena, after being beaten by the mob, was burned along with other religious images; only part of one leg and one foot of the Christ were spared.
Rome law enforcement officers are on high alert ahead of Good Friday's highly-anticipated Way of the Cross led by Pope Leo XIV and other Easter-related events.
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If the end desired by God was the redemption of man in such a way as to bring man into full union with Himself—that is, to make us saints in loving union with Him—then there could have been no other way.
Cuba announced it will release over 2,000 prisoners as a humanitarian gesture during Holy Week. The scope of the releases and potential links to U.S.-Cuba negotiations remain unclear.
Cardinal Jose Advincula, archbishop of Manila, leads the Celebration of the Lord's Passion at 3 pm on Good Friday, April 3
(RNS) — In some noncreedal faith communities, the holiday is about metaphorical transformation and resisting empire.
‘Jesus showed that true love kneels. True love serves. True love is not afraid to get its hands dirty,’ Cebu Archbishop Alberto Uy says on Maundy Thursday
Cardinal Jose Advincula, archbishop of Manila, leads the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper at 5 pm on Maundy Thursday, April 2
As Easter approaches, access to Jerusalem’s holy sites reveals the politics of occupation, not a clash of faiths
Cardinal Jose Advincula, archbishop of Manila, leads the Chrism Mass at 7 am on Maundy Thursday, April 2
On Holy Wednesday, the day prior to the Last Supper, Jesus lodged in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper on the southern slope of the Mount of Olives. While there, a woman, probably Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, anointed Jesus with spikenard—gesturing to and declaring Jesus’ messianic and kingly character. There’s some confusion as to precisely who all the key players are, including…
The events of Holy Tuesday follow directly from Monday’s temple clearing, during which, among much else, Jesus manifest his messianic claims. Questioning his right to do such things, the Pharisees strove to discredit his authority. Holy Tuesday depicts the multiple conspiracies to entangle Jesus, efforts to find him in contempt of legal, theological, or scriptural norms. Jesus dealt deftly with…
In its splendor, the second temple in Jerusalem that Jesus would have seen was far more magnificent than the more modest edifice—however miraculous in provenance—constructed by those Jewish exiles whose return to Jerusalem from Babylon is retold in the closing chapters of Second Chronicles and in Ezra and Nehemiah. The temple of Jesus’ day was one element of a reconstruction plan of astonishing…
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Israeli authorities apologized after barring Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, an incident that drew sharp criticism from global leaders and church officials.
For the first time in centuries, the Catholic Church’s senior leaders in Israel were prevented from the traditional celebration.
Trains in Metro Manila will undergo maintenance during the Holy Week
Ponder deeply on the significance of Lent with this free exhibit built as a solemn journey
A thin, white film caused by decades of rising visitor numbers has dulled the dramatic contrasts of Michelangelo’s 'Last Judgment' in the Sistine Chapel.