Pope Francis seemed stronger as he spoke about “Catholic guilt” during Holy Thursday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. Catholic guilt, or compunction, is the need to “feel overly guilty for any perceived ...

Justin Vellucci Thursday, March 28, 2024 5:23 p.m. | Thursday, March 28, 2024 5:23 p.m. Bishop David Zubik stood Thursday afternoon in a narrow Allegheny County Jail hallway lined with white cinder ...

‘Jesus, today, with this celebration, wants to teach us this: nobility of heart,’ the Pope said in his homily for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Pope Francis washes the feet of 12 young men and women, ...

Pope Francis will continue his custom of celebrating Holy Thursday Mass in a prison during Holy Week 2024, the Vatican said. In a statement released March 6, the Vatican announced that the pope will ...

Pope Francis led the first of two major Holy Thursday ceremonies, presiding at Mass in St. Peter's Basilica as he continues his stamina-testing Holy Week appointments days after battling bronchitis in ...

Karen Brynildsea of Bethlehem was the reader during Holy Thursday Mass with the Anglican Ordinariate group at Holy Ghost Church of Bethlehem April 14, 2022. Fr. Matthew Hummel gives communion to Anne ...

A strong-looking Francis presided over a Holy Thursday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica during which the oils for church services are blessed. Later in the afternoon, he travels to Rome’s main women’s ...

Less than a week after being released from Gemelli Hospital, where he was being treated for bronchitis, Pope Francis will preside over Holy Thursday Mass at Casal del Marmo juvenile prison and wash ...

On Holy Thursday, Pope Francis presided over a chrism Mass at which more than 1,880 priests, bishops, and cardinals renewed the promises made at their ordinations. Pope Francis encouraged the priests ...

Pope Francis greets an inmate as he washes the feet of prisoners during the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper at a prison in Civitavecchia, Italy, April 14, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ...

Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 young men and women, inmates at a juvenile prison in Rome, during a Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday. The pope presided over the livestreamed Mass for more than ...