On Saturday, the eve of Holy Week, Francis went to the St. Mary Major Basilica in central Rome to pray privately before a favourite icon of the Virgin Mary, Salus Populi Romani.

Fabbro said this Holy Week, three years removed from the first wave of the pandemic, is a chance to welcome people who may have stayed away or lost touch with their spiritual community. “We’re ...

Francis met for nearly a half-hour with some 70 inmates at the Regina Caeli prison in Rome’s Trastevere neighbourhood. It’s a prison Francis has visited before to perform the annual Holy ...