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According to the Spanish newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón, sources from the archdiocese said Father Javier Sánchez “tried to protect the nuns of the convent."
For the first time in his 11-year pontificate, Pope Francis has written his own spiritual meditations for Friday’s Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) in Rome.
Pope Francis encouraged the priests to turn their gaze upon the crucified Lord and weep over their sins in repentance, saying tears can “purify and heal the heart.”
At the end of Lent, right before Easter, the Catholic Church observes the “sacred triduum.” What is it?
In Jerusalem on Holy Wednesday, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land venerate the two stones that, according to the Gospel of Luke, were stained with the blood of Jesus during his passion.
The devotion involves traveling to seven local churches after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on the evening of Holy Thursday.
The reflection will be based on the theme “In Prayer with Jesus on the Way of the Cross.”
St. Josemaría Escrivá inspired and promoted UNIV, an international meeting of young university students seeking to deepen their faith.
Every March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord is celebrated in the Catholic Church. But not this year.
On Palm Sunday, hundreds of priests, bishops, cardinals, and laypeople solemnly carried large palm branches in procession through St. Peter’s Square to begin the first liturgy of Holy Week.