Pope Francis marked Ash Wednesday by blessing ashes and placing a call from his hospital room to a Gaza parish as Catholics around the world celebrated the first day of Lent by praying for the ...

Cardinal Angelo De Donatis replaced Pope Francis in Ash Wednesday celebrations. LONDON and ROME -- Pope Francis "remained stationary" on Wednesday, "without showing any episodes of respiratory ...

As previously announced by the Vatican, Pope Francis was discharged on Sunday, March 23, in the morning after spending 38 ...

will replace Pope Francis at Wednesday's liturgical celebration for Ash Wednesday in Rome. The Cardinal will read the Homily ...

A cardinal has been designated to take Pope Francis’s place at Vatican celebrations this year as the pontiff remains in hospital battling double pneumonia. The practices of Ash Wednesday ...

While Pope Francis remained in Rome's Gemelli Hospital, Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis celebrated the Ash Wednesday Mass in his place in a poignant ceremony at the Basilica of Santa Sabina on ...

Pope Francis participated in an Ash Wednesday celebration today as he marked the beginning of Lent in hospital. Francis, 88, was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on February 14 with a severe ...

The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, had two respiratory crises on Monday in a setback to recovery. During the morning he participated in ...

Pope Gregory, according to the Museum of the Bible, was also the one to establish the tradition of marking the foreheads of worshipers with ashes in the shape of the cross on Ash Wednesday.

POPE Francis has been taken off ventilation after suffering two ‘acute respiratory failures’ on Monday, the Vatican has said.

The pope usually leads the main Ash Wednesday service, which start at 1600 GMT. In his absence, the mass will be presided over by Italian Cardinal Angelo de Donatis after a procession on Rome’s ...

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