Imagine if you got to share your artwork with the pope. Today, after his general audience, Pope Francis met with a group of Ukrainians. This girl was one of 11 orphans in the group who escaped Ukraine and found assistance in early March with an Italian Catholic organization. (CNS photos/Vatican Media) #PopeFrancis #Vatican #Ukrainians #art #artwork #arttherapy #Catholic #orphans #refugeeswelcome #refugees #war

Today is Easter according to the Julian calendar, followed by Orthodox Christians and many Eastern Catholics, but it is also Divine Mercy Sunday. Celebrated every year on the Sunday after Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, was added to the universal church calendar by St. John Paul II in 2000. The Polish pope was a longtime devotee of the Divine Mercy devotions of St. Faustina Kowalksa, whom he beatified in 1993 and canonized in 2000. This image is from St. Peter's Square at the Vatican today. You c...

Traditional Ukrainian Easter cakes baked for the Ukrainian military are pictured at the Crimean Bakery in Lviv, Ukraine, April 21. Most Ukrainians celebrate Easter April 24, according to the Julian calendar. (CNS photo/Pavlo Palamarchuk, Reuters) #Ukraine #UkrainianEaster #Easter #Eastercakes #yum #cakesforsoldiers

#Repost @3vphoto with @let.repost • • • • • • Happy 109th birthday to Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella! Sister Francis, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville, N.Y., is the second-oldest nun in the U.S., two years younger than Sister Vincent de Paul Hutton, a Dominican Sister of Peace who turned 111 on March 11. Sister Francis continues to live independently in an East Williston, N.Y., apartment she shares with a fellow Dominican sister. FILE PHOTO: Sister Francis waves as relat...

Despite knee problems that have caused him difficulty walking and standing for long periods of time, Pope Francis greeted people after his general audience in St. Peter's Square April 20. Also pictured are some of the more than 40,000 flowers imported from the Netherlands for Easter. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) #PopeFrancis #Vatican #audience #flowers #Netherlands #StPetersSquare #greetingsandsalutations

Here are some scenes from St. Peter’s Square this morning, where Pope Francis celebrated the first outdoor Easter Mass since the pandemic. About 55,000 people gathered in the square for the Mass, but by the time Pope Francis gave his blessing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, police estimated there were 100,000 people present. You can read what the pope said here: https://bit.ly/3uO8ujg (CNS photos/Paul Haring) #PopeFrancis #Easter #Vatican #StPetersSquare #urbieetorbi #blessing #Mass ...

Catholics in Chalatenango, El Salvador celebrate the resurrection of the Lord after a vigil Mass April 17, 2022. (CNS video by Rhina Guidos)

“Let us make Jesus, the Living One, rise again from all those tombs in which we have sealed him,” Pope Francis said in his homily April 16 during the Easter Vigil in St. Peter’s Basilica. “Let us bring him into our everyday lives: through gestures of peace in these days marked by the horrors of war, through acts of reconciliation amid broken relationships, acts of compassion toward those in need, acts of justice amid situations of inequality and of truth in the midst of lies. And above all, thr...

Retired Pope Benedict XVI, seen in this 2006 photo in Germany, turns 95 today, April 16. The retired pope has been living in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican Gardens since his resignation in 2013. (CNS photo/Wolfgang Rattay, Reuters) #Benedict #emeritus #pope #retired #HappyBirthday

A little boy steps up with his mom to venerate the cross on #goodfriday April 15,2022 at the parish of La Sierpe in northern El Salvador. (CNS photo by Rhina Guidos)

Jefferson Guardado, 10, plays the part of Jesus at one of the Stations of the Cross on #GoodFriday April 15, 2022 in Chalatenango, El Salvador. (CNS photo by Rhina Guidos)

A worshipper prays on the Stone of Unction, where tradition holds that Jesus was laid out after his death, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City on Good Friday, April 15. (CNS photo/Ronen Zvulun, Reuters) #GoodFriday #HolySepulcher #HolySepulchre #StoneofUnction #Crucifixion #Jerusalem #OldCity #tradition