Pope Leo XIV walks the Way of the Cross, offering lesson on power

ROME – Pope Leo XIV led the traditional Via Crucis devotion on Good Friday, carrying the cross himself the whole way at the Colosseum in Rome, as a running reflection was offered on the meaning of real power as rooted in humility and service, rather than force or dominance.

The meditation for the first station of the fourteen stations of the traditional Lenten Way of the Cross said that Jesus in his condemnation to death “unmasked every human presumption of power.”

“Even today...