Before Holy Week takes over with its pilgrims and penitents on the streets of Cebu, Palm Sunday quietly sets things off. It’s ...

Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering -- it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside them, Pope Francis wrote at the start of Holy Week.

VATICAN CITY ... leading a procession of cardinals around the piazza’s central obelisk carrying an ornately braided palm that recalls Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, when ...