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Pope Francis was helped to his feet as he celebrated Good Friday Mass in St Peter’s Basilica with no worshippers present as the Italian public obey strict lockdown rules triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State led the Good Friday Passion of the Lord with no … Read more
Pope Francis was helped to his feet as he celebrated Good Friday mass in St Peter’s Basilica with no worshippers present as the Italian public obey strict lockdown rules triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State led the Good Friday Passion of the Lord with no … Read more
Christians were marking Good Friday in isolation today as churches lay empty, worshippers prayed from home and the Pope prepared for a scaled-back Easter because of the coronavirus pandemic. Pilgrims have been barred from retracing Jesus’s steps in the Holy Land, with flights grounded and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre closed for the first … Read more
Pope Francis has begun the first of several Holy Week ceremonies that will be held behind closed doors this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Normally, tens of thousands of Romans and pilgrims, clutching olive branches, would have flocked to an outdoor Mass led by the pontiff. Instead, Francis was leading the ceremony inside the … Read more
Pope Francis has tested negative for coronavirus for a second time after a Vatican worker who lives in the same residence was reportedly hospitalised due to the disease. The 83-year-old Pontiff was swabbed yesterday along with those who surround him, who also all tested negative. A clergyman at Saint Martha’s guest house, which the pope uses … Read more
Self-pity and sadness are ‘the seed of the devil’ the Pope warns during livestreamed Mass as he urges Christians not to ‘complain about everything’ Pope Francis live-streamed Holy Mass from the chapel of his Vatican residence He prayed for people to recognise the ‘evil’ of complaining about their lives ‘Many of us [are] unable to do … Read more
Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, from Casigno in Italy’s hardest-hit Lombardy region, died of coronavirus after giving up his respirator to a younger patient An Italian priest died of coronavirus after giving up a respirator that his parishioners bought for him to a younger patient, it has been revealed. Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, from Casigno in Italy’s hardest-hit … Read more
Sixty Italian priests have died amid country’s coronavirus pandemic and Pope’s call for them to be brave enough to attend the sick Among Italy’s 5,476 dead are at least 60 priests who tested positive for the virus Pope Francis called on priests to ‘have courage to go out to the sick’ this month In Bergamo, in … Read more
Sixty Italian priests have died amid country’s coronavirus pandemic and Pope’s call for them to be brave enough to attend the sick Among Italy’s 5,476 dead are at least 60 priests who tested positive for the virus Pope Francis called on priests to ‘have courage to go out to the sick’ this month In Bergamo, in … Read more
Pope Francis was seen delivering his weekly Angelus prayer to an empty Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican City this morning, as Italians stay home to combat the spread of coronavirus. After presiding over Holy Mass from the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican Pope Francis shared a sombre message: ‘To the virus pandemic, we want to … Read more