Pope's Good Friday Service Underscores Plight of Suffering

The plight of immigrants, the poor, the sick, the elderly, unemployed and prisoners dominated Pope Francis' Good Friday service at Rome's Colosseum as he led Catholics around the world in commemorating the day Jesus died. The pope, in the run-up to the second Easter of his pontificate, presided at the traditional "Via Crucis" (Way of the Cross) service around the ancient Roman ruin. Sitting on a chair on the Palatine Hill just opposite the Colosseum and often kneeling...

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