Worshippers and onlookers follow the annual Via Crucis procession down 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood, April 18, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) Eduardo Bahena portrays Jesus in the ...

COMMENTARY: What was present last week on College Street in Australia was a dramatic public witness of the cross of Christ not in life, but in death. Family and members of the Church form a procession ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Hundreds of people took a religious trek through the city's Pilsen neighborhood on Good Friday, in an annual procession to re-enact the Stations of the Cross and reflect on the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- On this Good Friday, the faithful in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood re-created Jesus' final steps before his death. This is the 46th annual Via Crucis. Organizers said the Way of the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Hundreds of people gathered in Pilsen on this Good Friday to reflect on Jesus' final hours. The community's Via Crucis is a sacred tradition, but immigration fears are casting a ...

Pope Francis leads the praying of the Via Crucis at Rome’s Colosseum on April 15, 2022. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Pope Francis on Friday night opted out at the last minute of leading the ...

The Vatican adapted Pope Francis’ Way of the Cross on Good Friday after an outcry in Ukraine over a Station involving Ukrainian and Russian families. The meditation for the 13th Station, “Jesus dies ...

Here’s a short video about yesterday’s Way of the Cross led by Pope Benedict XVI at the Colosseum in Rome. “The anguish of the passion of the Lord Jesus cannot fail to move to pity even the most ...

Nellie Quintana was 10 years old when she went to her first Via Crucis with her mother in Pilsen, a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Chicago's Lower West Side. The dramatic reenactment of the ...

VALPARAISO – Members of the Roman army took to the parking lot and prayer trail Friday at St. Paul Catholic Church. In a procession repeated in Hispanic communities across this country and south of ...

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