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Good Friday

Pope Leo XIV leads the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome April 3, 2026. (OSV News photo/Vincenzo Livieri, Reuters)

At Colosseum, pope carries the cross, leading thousands in Good Friday prayer for suffering world

Courtney Mares|Apr 3, 2026|5 Min Read

Pope Leo XVI holds a crucifix as he leads the Good Friday Liturgy of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 3, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)

Good Friday liturgy underscores need to break 'this chain' of violence

Josephine Peterson|Apr 3, 2026|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV and Israeli President Isaac Herzog meet in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Sept. 4, 2025. Pope Leo spoke over the telephone with Herzog and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy April 3, 2026, Good Friday, urging diplomatic solutions and humanitarian support amid the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Europe. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo XIV calls Israeli, Ukrainian leaders on Good Friday, urging peace

Courtney Mares|Apr 3, 2026|3 Min Read

Judas making a bargain with the Pharisees, depicted by Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1255-1319, Italian. (Wikimedia Commons)

Why Lent (and Easter) is for traitors

Heather King|Apr 2, 2026|4 Min Read

Crucifixion

Don’t hurry past the cross to Easter

Grazie Pozo Christie|Apr 16, 2025|4 Min Read

Sculpture

Ahead of Good Friday, Chicago parish unveils statue of Christ mourning gun victims

Gina Christian|Mar 26, 2024|3 Min Read

“The Crucifixion,” about 1420-1430, by Master of the Kremnitz Stadtbuch. (J. Paul Getty Museum)

To enter the Paschal Mystery this Easter, hold on to Mary

Bishop Slawomir Szkredka|Apr 4, 2023|4 Min Read

Ukrainian nurse Iryna and Russian nursing student Albina, who are friends, hold a cross at the 13th station as Pope Francis leads the Way of the Cross outside the Colosseum in Rome April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican adapts Good Friday Way of the Cross after outcry in Ukraine

Catholic News Agency|Apr 15, 2022|5 Min Read

Papal envoy Cardinal Konrad Krajewski prays at a mass grave in Ukraine on Good Friday, April 15, 2022. (Vatican Media via CNA)

World

Papal envoy prays at mass grave in Ukraine

Catholic News Agency|Apr 15, 2022|2 Min Read

Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa preaches at the Good Friday liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica, April 15, 2022. (Daniel Ibáñez/CNA)

Papal preacher on Good Friday 2022: From Pilate to the internet age, people have turned their backs on Jesus

Catholic News Agency|Apr 15, 2022|4 Min Read

"The Crucifixion," 1886, by Jean Francois Portaels. (Shutterstock)

How Christ upends our flawed ideas about suffering, fault, and forgiveness

Heather King|Apr 15, 2022|4 Min Read

A man mourns next to the grave of his friend in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 6. (CNS/Alkis Konstantinidis, Reuters)

The long Good Friday

Robert Brennan|Apr 15, 2022|4 Min Read

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