Convalescing Pope Francis opens Holy Week with in-person greeting in St. Peter's Square

Cainta parish on viral video: It’s incomplete, one-sided

The St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Cainta, Rizal on Tuesday urged the public to discern amid the viral video showing one of its priests raising his voice to palm frond vendors inside the church compound on Palm Sunday.

On Palm Sunday, recovering pope says to carry the cross with compassion

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering — it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside them, Pope Francis wrote at the start of Holy Week. “To carry the cross of Christ is never in vain,” he wrote in his homily for Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square April 13. “It is the most tangible way for us to share in his redemptive love.” The pope, still recovering from respiratory infections, …

Vatican City., A still convalescent Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful gathered there a “good Palm Sunday and a good Holy Week”, in another reassuring public sign of his recovery after a bilateral pneumonia that put his life at risk.

The pontiff, without oxygen and wearing a cassock, showed up unexpectedly at Saint Peter's, Bergoglio offered best wishes for the current festivities to the faithful gathered in the square. “Happy Palm Sunday, happy Holy Week.” This was Pope Francis' wish to the approximately twenty thousand faithful present...

Convalescing Pope Francis opens Holy Week

VATICAN CITY — A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week,” in yet another reassuring public sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia. Many in the crowd reached out to touch Francis’ hand or garments as he was brought in a wheelchair down a ramp to the main altar, where he issued his brief greeting int…

Pope Francis makes brief appearance after Palm Sunday service

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis made a brief appearance in St Peter's Square on Sunday (Apr 13) at the end of a Palm Sunday service, greeting the crowds from his wheelchair as he continues to recover from double pneumonia. "Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week," the pope said, before once returning inside the Vat