On Palm Sunday, hundreds of priests, bishops, cardinals, and laypeople solemnly carried large palm branches in procession through St. Peter’s Square to begin the first liturgy of Holy Week. “Dear ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday but it'll feel differently this year because of COVID-19. There will be no public celebrations but many will be live-streamed. Palms will also not be ...

Pope Francis chose not to read the prepared homily, but reminded the faithful: ‘Today, we gather together to herald with the whole Church the beginning of the celebration of Our Lord’s Paschal mystery ...

Christian faithful of the Legio Maria African Mission attend the traditional Palm Sunday procession in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday, March 24, 2024. Streams of Christian pilgrims gathered Sunday to ...

Detroit — Newly installed Archbishop Edward Weisenburger and local Catholics marked the start of Holy Week outside the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament on Sunday morning. The Mass was the first ...

Parishioners at St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton held a palm branch in their hand as a reference to the bible, where people welcomed Jesus by laying down their cloaks and waving palm branches. Palm ...

More than 250,000 palm and olive branches and more than 20,000 pilgrims filled St. Peter's Square for Palm Sunday at the Vatican — and finally, as the Mass concluded, Pope Francis was there, too. The ...

New Yorkers gathered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and other churches across the city Sunday to mark Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week. The holiday commemorates the arrival of Jesus into Jerusalem. The ...

Pope Francis wished a "Happy Palm Sunday and Happy Holy Week" to the faithful gathered in Saint Peter's Square following the conclusion of a mass presided over by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri on his ...

Pope Francis waives to faithful and cardinals at the end of Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square on April 13, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot.) Listen ROME – As the Catholic Church begins ...

ROME — Pope Francis decided at the last minute to skip his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square, avoiding a strenuous speech at the start of a busy Holy Week that will test his ...

Pope Francis offered prayers for the victims of the “vile terrorist attack” in Moscow at the end of his Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican. At least 130 people died after gunmen opened fire at a musical ...