Pope leaves faithful guessing over Easter appearances

Vatican heads into a Holy Week of surprises with Pope Francis

View from the Vatican: From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, there are six major liturgies, all of which normally involve the pope. This year, can Pope Francis take part without jeopardizing his recovery?

The fraternity until blindness? Concerning China, Israel or Islam, behind appearances, Pope Francis did not really know anything about the constraints of realpolotik. For Christians, Easter Sunday is the day of Christ's resurrection, that is to say the anniversary of the founding event of Christianity. This is the most important day of the calendar, when Christmas only arrived a few centuries later. Pope Francis, exhausted since he left the hosp…

Vatican's Easter Mass opens without Pope Francis as he continues recovering from pneumonia

The Vatican is celebrating Easter without Pope Francis presiding. The 88-year-old pontiff continues his recovery from a near-fatal bout of double pneumonia. In his place, Cardinal Angelo Comastri, the retired archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, celebrated the open-air Mass before…

Unthinkable a few weeks ago, the presence of Pope Francis on Sunday in the Vatican is expected by Catholics around the world for Easter celebrations, the most important celebration of the year. ...

In full recovery, the sovereign pontiff made several appearances upstream of the most important week of the year for Catholics.

Recovering pope expected to delight crowds at Easter Sunday mass

Pope Francis is expected to delight Catholics all over the world during Easter celebrations at the Vatican on Sunday, just weeks after he was fighting for his life in hospital while suffering from pneumonia.