Instead of presiding over the torch-led procession at the Colosseum, Francis will watch from the hotel where he lives in the Vatican.

A Reflection for Holy Saturday, At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter, by James T. Keane

A Reflection for Good Friday, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

In these Lenten and Easter days in which the church celebrates a man whose divinity was revealed in his willingness to sacrifice everything for love, consider "Sweeney Todd" to be that story’s dark, demonic twin.

In a Holy Thursday ritual symbolizing humility, Pope Francis washed and dried the feet of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile prison, assuring them of their dignity and telling them “any of us” can fall into sin.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” hosts Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss how the pope bounced back from bronchitis.

If irony is the opposite of what one might expect, then nothing is more ironic than God.

A Homily for Good Friday, by Terrance Klein

On March 27, 40 men died in a fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez. The appalling loss of life has many more authors than the people likely to be punished for it.

The Notre Dame Folk Choir was like a family I did not want to leave behind.