Marking his first Good Friday as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross through all 14 stations of the way of the cross at the Colosseum, a feat not seen by a pope in decades.
“I think it will be an important sign because of what the pope represents, a spiritual leader in the world today, and for this voice, that everyone wants to hear, that says Christ still suffers,” Leo told reporters this week outside of the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo. “I carry all of this suffering in my prayer.”
