Pope Francis, still recovering, skips Rome's annual Good Friday procession

The Pope will only recite the introductory lines of the blessing.

Only Sunday morning will it be decided whether the Pope is fit enough to attend the Easter blessing. Francis himself wants to be there.

Pope Francis did not participate this Good Friday on the traditional Way of the Cross in the Colosseum of Rome, as he continues his convalescence for his recent...

Francis has been weak for weeks, his condition evokes memories of John Paul II. How can a Pope lead the Church when he is physically at the end?

Recovering Pope Francis visits Rome prison to keep annual Holy Week appointment

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis visited Rome's central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate, even as he continues recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia.Francis met for nearly a half-hour with some 70 inmates at the Regina Caeli prison in Romes Trastevere neighborhood. Its a prison Francis has visited before to perform the annual Holy Thurs…

At the Colosseum in Rome, Christians from all over the world recalled the suffering and death of Jesus. It was the third time in a row that Pope Francis could not attend personally.