Pope Francis presided over a Good Friday service held in an empty St. Peter's Basilica because of the coronavirus outbreak
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis presided at a “Way of the Cross” service held in an empty St. Peter’s Square on Friday because of the coronavirus outbreak and listened as both prisoners and their victims recounted their sorrows.
Francis watched from under a canopy on the steps of the basilica as 10 people - half from the Italian prison system and half from the Vatican’s health services - carried a cross and flaming torches towards him. “I committed an evil immensely greater than any of those that I had received,” said the meditation written by the murderer.
“I became a grandfather in prison. I didn’t experience my daughter’s pregnancy. One day, I will tell my granddaughter the story of only the goodness I have found and not the evil I have done,” read another meditation.
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