The Vatican is opening the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines.

COMMENTARY: The fifth word from the cross points to Christ’s real bodily suffering — and his divine thirst for our salvation — as foretold in Scripture and confessed in the Creed.

VATICAN— For Holy Week, Pope Francis has delegated three cardinals to celebrate the Vatican’s Holy Thursday and Good Friday liturgies as the state of the ...

Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically ...