Irina, from Ukraine, and Albina, from Russia, hold the cross at Rome s Colosseum, April 15, 2022. / Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel.Rome Newsroom, Apr 15, 2022 / 14:38 pm (CNA).The Vatican adapted Pope Francis Way of the Cross on Good Friday after an outcry in Ukraine over a Station involving Ukrainian and Russian families.The meditation for the 13th Station, "Jesus dies on the Cross," was written by members of a Ukrainian and a Russian family. In the event, the meditation was not read out during the Via Crucis at Rome s Colosseum on April 15. In its place, a reader said: "In the face of death, silence is more eloquent than words. Let us therefore pause in prayerful silence and each one in his heart pray for peace in the world."During the silence, the cross was held tightly by two friends, Irina, from Ukraine, and Albina, from Russia. The women, who work together at the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital in Rome, looked at each other as they held th
Pope Francis prays the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on Good Friday, April 14, 2017. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, Apr 11, 2022 / 08:24 am (CNA).Ukrainian and Russian families will carry the cross together during the Stations of the Cross led by Pope Francis at Rome s Colosseum on Good Friday.The Vatican has published the meditations and prayers for the pope s Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, which will focus this year on the many "crosses" of family life.The meditations include reflections from a couple without children, a family with a disabled child, a family with an ill grandparent, a family of migrants, and families suffering due to the Ukraine war. For the 13th station, "Jesus dies on the Cross," a Ukrainian family and a Russian family will read a reflection that they wrote together about how their lives were upended by the pain of war."Why has my land become as dark as Golgotha? We have no tears left. Anger has given way to resig
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Pope Francis announced that beginning in March 2021 the Catholic Church would observe a special year dedicated to deepening pastoral outreach to families, based on his 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia.
Pope Francis addresses members of the Roman Rota in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, Jan. 27, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Jan 27, 2022 / 07:25 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Thursday urged members of the Catholic Church’s highest court handli.