The Pope is continuing his medical treatment at Gemelli Hospital and was unable to attend the Mass held inside the Basilica of Santa Sabina located on Rome’s Aventine Hill. Cardinal Angelo De ...

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While Pope Francis remained in Rome's Gemelli Hospital, Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis celebrated the Ash Wednesday Mass in his place in a poignant ceremony at the Basilica of Santa Sabina on ...

“But the pope is a whole other category.” Standing outside Santa Sabina as he paused his tour of Rome’s infinite churches, Mr. Maurer said the pope’s absence was palpable not only during ...

Instead Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis read out the pope’s homily at the mass at Rome’s Santa Sabina basilica, which was preceded by a procession joined by around 20 red-clad cardinals.

On Wednesday, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Major Penitentiary, celebrated the traditional Mass beginning Lent at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome, and read the homily prepared by Pope Francis.

In Rome, Catholics will take part in a procession to the Santa Sabina Basilica where the Pope would normally attend and say mass. This year the service will be taken instead by one of the Cardinals.

Last year, in Rome, Pope Francis, during his Ash Wednesday homily at the Basilica of Santa Sabina, urged the faithful to use this period to detach from worldly distractions, particularly the ...

The master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations will lead a procession of cardinals, archbishops, bishops, Benedictine monks of Sant'Anselmo, the Dominican fathers of Santa Sabina and faithful.

Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis read out the pope’s homily at the mass at the Santa Sabina basilica, attended by around 20 red-clad cardinals. “We feel deeply united with him at this moment ...