VATICAN CITY (CNS) More than 10,000 people gathered outside Rome s Colosseum prayed with Pope Francis for peace in the world, while a Ukrainian and a Russian woman held a cross together during the nighttime Way of the Cross April 15.
Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa said during the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion April 15 in St. Peter's Basilica.
While a controversial prayer was changed for the Good Friday service led by Pope Francis and attended by 10,000, the two women, who are friends, participated.