PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV Carries the Cross at the Via Crucis in the Colosseum
The Pope personally carried the cross through every station of the Good Friday Way of the Cross at the Colosseum.
The Pope personally carried the cross through every station of the Good Friday Way of the Cross at the Colosseum.
The Holy Father carried the cross at the Roman amphitheater on Good Friday, the first time a pope has done so in several years.
The spiritual presence of the Pope was palpably felt through his powerful meditations.
Paterson Diocese offers unique way to pray the Stations of the Cross as a family on Good Friday.
The procession was the only sign of life in a Jerusalem emptied of tourists and pilgrims and patrolled by security forces.
The Via Crucis meditations connected Christ’s sufferings to wounds that young people experience today from mental health struggles, addition, and anxiety about their future.
COMMENTARY: What was present last week on College Street in Australia was a dramatic public witness of the cross of Christ not in life, but in death.
The meditation for “Jesus Dies on the Cross” was written by members of a Ukrainian and a Russian family. It was not read out during the Via Crucis at Rome’s Colosseum on April 15.
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