There are deeper, underlying commonalities that join the two holidays.

Good Friday may be a somber day, but it does not necessarily have to be a perfectly sober one.

The March for Our Lives, which happened at the outset of Holy Week, told Americans it is time to face the deep sin of favoring guns over human life.

The show stars popular singers John Legend as Jesus and Sara Bareilles, who was raised Catholic, as Mary Magdalene, and features 1970s rock figure Alice Cooper as Herod.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell."

The pope urged priests to be "street preachers" like Jesus.