'We can either get depressed and alienated... or we can get creative,' says Pope Francis. HolyWeek2020
VIRTUAL HOLY WEEK. This handout photo taken and released on April 8, 2020 by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis speaking during a weekly live broadcast private audience in the library of the Apostolic palace at The Vatican. AFP Photo/Vatican Media
The Vatican has been closed to visitors for a month and the 83-year-old pontiff – beloved for breaking stuffy customs and mingling with the people – has complained of feeling"caged". The scale of the unfolding tragedy has seen a New York City cathedral replace rows of wooden seats with hospital beds in case of overcrowding in surrounding emergency wards.is urging the faithful not to kiss the cross and its Orthodox counterpart in Greece is planning to hold mass behind closed doors for its Easter on April 19.
Prince Charles – the heir to the British throne who was briefly quarantined last month after testing positive for the virus – recorded a reading of the Gospel for Easter Sunday.
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