00:00In other news in Rome, Italy, Pope Leo XIV led the faithful at the Good Friday way of the cross,
00:06by carrying the cross throughout the Colosseum.
00:09Joined by around 30,000 faithful, the Pope led the walks through the ruins of the ancient Roman edifice.
00:15The Catholic pontiffs thus became the second Pope to carry the cross for the entire Via Cruxes on Good Friday
00:21at the site,
00:23following in the footsteps of Pope St. John Paul II.
00:27Passages from the Gospel were read, along with excerpts from the writing of St. Francis.
00:33At the conclusion of the act, the religious leader prayed that Christian's Day's response to St. Francis' invitation
00:39to live our lives as a journey of ever-deepening participation in the communion of love.
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