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Good Friday 2022: Papal envoy prays at mass grave in Ukraine
Apr 15, 2022 / 12:50 pmCardinal Konrad Krajewski visited the newly liberated areas around the capital Kyiv.
Papal preacher on Good Friday 2022: From Pilate to the internet age, people have turned their backs on Jesus
Apr 15, 2022 / 12:03 pmCardinal Raniero Cantalamessa was preaching in St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of Pope Francis.
Top Vatican cardinal: 'Legitimate concerns' about Germany's 'Synodal Path'
Apr 15, 2022 / 11:15 amCardinal Kurt Koch has confirmed Pope Francis’ apprehension about Germany’s “Synodal Path,” telling EWTN in an exclusive interview that critics have raised “legitimate concerns” about the controversial re-assessment of Church teaching on sexual morality and other critical issues.
Full text: Cardinal Cantalamessa’s homily at the Vatican’s Good Friday 2022 liturgy
Apr 15, 2022 / 10:32 am‘This year we celebrate Easter not to the joyful sound of bells, but with the noise in the ears of bombs and explosions.’
Good Friday 2022: Pope Francis says ‘world has chosen the path of Cain’
Apr 15, 2022 / 07:20 am‘War is everywhere,’ he told interviewer Lorena Bianchetti.
Full text: Good Friday 2022 Way of the Cross led by Pope Francis
Apr 15, 2022 / 07:00 amHere is the full text of the Via Crucis at Rome’s Colosseum led by Pope Francis.
Pope Francis washes prisoners’ feet at Mass on Holy Thursday 2022
Apr 14, 2022 / 11:54 amThe pope offered the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at a prison in Civitavecchia.
Grandmother challenges fine for ‘solitary prayer walk’ during COVID-19 lockdown
Apr 14, 2022 / 07:12 am‘I’m taking a stand to protect fundamental freedoms for all people,’ said Rosa Lalor.
Catholics invited to congratulate Benedict XVI on his 95th birthday
Apr 14, 2022 / 02:00 amThe messages will be collected online and delivered to the pope emeritus.
You can follow Holy Week, Easter events on EWTN. Here's the schedule
Apr 13, 2022 / 14:06 pmAre you planning to stay at home for the Holy Week and Easter season celebrations? Join some of the biggest celebrations of this holy season right from home!
Cordileone on signing letter to German bishops: ‘Christ’s teaching is timeless’
Apr 13, 2022 / 13:54 pm“The teaching of Christ is timeless. It's not bound by any one generation, any one time or culture,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone says, explaining why he signed a letter warning Germany's bishops that the "Synodal Path" threatens to undermine the Church's unity and credibility.
Pope Francis visits Benedict XVI ahead of Pope emeritus’ 95th birthday
Apr 13, 2022 / 11:31 amThe two men prayed together ‘after a brief and affectionate conversation.’
European church leaders ask Putin and Zelenskyy for Easter ceasefire
Apr 13, 2022 / 08:47 am‘We respectfully request you to declare a ceasefire in Ukraine from midnight on April 17,’ they wrote.
Pope Francis: ‘Armed aggression’ is ‘an outrage against God’
Apr 13, 2022 / 04:40 amThe pope described war as ‘a blasphemous betrayal of the Lord of Passover.’
‘Our hands have become like wings’: Catholic charity workers bring aid to Kyiv region
Apr 13, 2022 / 03:20 amCaritas-Spes distributed five tonnes of food in recently liberated areas.
Bishop 'horrified' by Brooklyn shooting, asks prayers for injured and first responders
Apr 12, 2022 / 11:20 amBishop Robert Brennan of Brooklyn urged prayer for those injured in a shooting at a subway station in the New York City borough on Tuesday, and for the first responders and transit workers.
‘An untimely idea’: Ukrainian Catholic leader concerned by format of Pope’s Good Friday Via Crucis
Apr 12, 2022 / 10:10 amMajor Archbishop Shevchuk addressed the plan for Ukrainian and Russian families to carry a cross together.
Cardinal Tagle laments killing of Caritas workers in Mariupol
Apr 12, 2022 / 07:07 am‘We honor the sacrifice of humanitarian workers by praying for them and their families,’ he said.
Bishops sign letter warning that Germany's 'Synodal Path' could lead to schism
Apr 12, 2022 / 06:00 amAn 'open letter' circulating among the world's bishops criticizes Germany's ongoing "Synodal Path" process for looking at the Church and its mission "through the lens of the world rather than through the lens of the truths revealed in Scripture and the Church’s authoritative Tradition."
Charleston diocese: Making death-row inmate choose means of execution is 'barbarism'
Apr 11, 2022 / 13:00 pmAfter the South Carolina Supreme Court set a date for the execution of Richard Moore, the Diocese of Charleston stated its opposition to capital punishment, and that the man must choose how his life will be ended.