Vatican City, Mar 24, 2005 / 22:00 pm
At the beginning of the traditional Good Friday Way of the Cross,
Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Vicar for the Diocese of Rome, read an emotional message from Pope John Paul II in which the Pope, who continues to recover from his throat surgery, notes: "Brother and Sisters, I am with you spiritually at the Coliseum, a place that evokes so many memories and emotions in me, to carry out the evocative rite of the Stations of the Cross this Good Friday evening."
"I unite myself with you in the meaningful invocation 'Adoramus te, Christe, et