The Catholic Church starts its busiest week of the year on Sunday with the countdown to Easter, but Pope Francis remains out ...

On Saturday night, he presided over the Easter vigil, also without incident ... on whether he will retire just as his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, did in 2013. But in a recently published ...

The Pope's Easter puzzle persists ... the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum. Finally, the Easter Vigil and then the Easter Sunday Mass, which includes the 'Urbi et Orbi' blessing.