Today, April 2, 2021, marks the sixteenth anniversary of the death of Saint John Paul II. As today is also Good Friday, we remember him praying in his private chapel while participating spiritually in his last Way of the Cross. He was watching the live television broadcast of the celebration taking place at Rome’s Colosseum on March 25, 2005.

POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and