CNA Staff, Mar 28, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis prayed Sunday for Indonesian Catholics injured in a bombing as they left a Palm Sunday Mass.

Vatican City, Mar 28, 2021 / 04:50 am (CNA).- Here is the full text of Pope Francis’ Palm Sunday homily, delivered March 28, 2021, at St. Peter’s Basilica:

Every year this liturgy leaves us amazed: we pass from the joy of welcoming Jesus as he enters Jerusalem to the sorrow of watching him condemned to death and then crucified. That sense of interior amazement will remain with us throughout Holy Week. Let us reflect more deeply on it.

CNA Staff, Mar 28, 2021 / 04:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis urged Catholics to focus on the cross during Holy Week as he celebrated Mass on Palm Sunday.

Offering Mass at the Altar of the Chair March 28, the pope said that Holy Week was an opportunity to rediscover “amazement” at Christ’s saving Passion.

CNA Staff, Mar 27, 2021 / 11:00 am (CNA).- Cardinal Fernando Filoni recalled Saturday the “extraordinary creative capacities” of Mother Angelica as he celebrated Mass in suffrage of the EWTN founder on the fifth anniversary of her death.

Preaching at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica March 27, the Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre said that the nun earned “the gratitude of the whole Church” for building a global media network at the service of the Gospel.