Pope Leo XIV opens Holy Week with Palm Sunday that recalls final days of Pope Francis' life - AP News

Pope Leo XIV opens Holy Week with Palm Sunday that recalls final days of Pope Francis' life  AP News

Palm Sunday, surfers and swan boats: photos of the weekend

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Pope Leo XIV rejects claims that God justifies war in Palm Sunday Mass message

Pope Leo XIV rejected claims that God justifies war and prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.

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BISHOP ROBERT BARRON: Even Judas? Rethinking sin, despair and divine mercy this Palm Sunday

Bishop Robert Barron explores whether Judas can be saved, citing Pope Francis, the Catechism, and Catholic teaching on mercy in his Palm Sunday reflection.

Israeli police prevent Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch from celebrating Palm Sunday mass

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Catholic figure in Jerusalem, was barred from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday mass, according to his office, in what Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni labelled an "offence to the faithful".

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Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who start wars in scathing Palm Sunday message

The Pope said God rejects the prayers of leaders who initiate wars and possess ‘hands full of blood’

By Joshua McElwee

Israel blocks Jerusalem's Patriarch from celebrating mass

Israeli police have prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday mass, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Israeli police prevent church officials from entering Jerusalem church for Palm Sunday mass

The two top Christian officials in the area were stopped by police from entering the church, a joint statement said.

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars

"[Jesus] does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: 'Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood'," Pope Leo says, citing a Bible passage

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Palm Sunday Mass in Valencia, Bukidnon highlights faith amid crisis

VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon — Catholics here gathered on Palm Sunday for a Holy Mass to commemorate Jesus Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem, signaling the start of Holy Week. Rev. Fr. Jojo Sumastre of St. Bernadette Parish in Barangay Batangan, Valencia City, celebrated Mass at a chapel inside a private subdivision, which included a reenactment of

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Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars

Pontiff's unusually forceful remarks come as Iran war enters second month

By Reuters