Good Friday is considered the holiest day of the year for Christians worldwide. It commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, as recounted in the Gospels. The service at St. Michael’s ...

Catholics from across Michigan have shared prayers in response to the announcement that Pope Francis has died.

On this Good Friday, when Christians reflect on the sacrifices Christ made, many also use the day to direct their prayers toward others across the globe.

His revolutionary and freewheeling style led Catholics across the spectrum to invest him with their most ambitious ... put women in big jobs within the powerful Roman bureaucracy that governed ...

“[Francis] knew how to give hope, ease suffering through prayer ... to show in the most striking and moving of ways the extraordinary importance of the spiritual as a powerful source of global ...

Father Shawn Monahan OMV of St. Clement ... of Jesus is what I most admired about him,” Cunningham said. After the news broke about Pope Francis’ death, Mayor Michael Nicholson of Gardner ...

Francis — who first addressed a crowd of adoring well-wishers 14 years ago from St. Peter’s Basilica balcony ... “not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for ...

except perhaps the slightly excessive mentions of God and prayer, which were more than I’ve seen in most Hallmark Christmas movies (and this isn’t even an Easter movie). I guess I should’ve ...

He recalls hearing Pope Francis advocate for gay rights and remembers it as “a powerful moment ... who was the 265th successor of St. Peter. When Pope Francis was elected, the first impression ...

However, his death came as a shock after he had been driven around St. Peter ... well-being of the most vulnerable communities worldwide. He hailed the pope as a “powerful voice for peace ...

Speaking at Saint Patrick's Cathedral ... care for the poor and the most vulnerable". Rev Dr John Alderdice and Mrs Barnett extended the "deepest sympathies and prayers" of Irish Methodist ...

[BELLS TOLLING] From “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro ... But he passes the Basilica of Saint Joseph, and he has an epiphany. He feels a calling, and he decides that, no, he ...