In one of his last public acts, Pope Francis gave a message of hope and peace in his Easter Sunday speech at the Vatican only hours before his death. The pontiff, who had been facing major health ...

But this year's speech was unusual ... Peter's Basilica in Rome as Archbishop Diego Ravelli read his text out loud. The Easter message begins by celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ ...

The Resurrection is not a doctrine crafted by theologians, but a conviction rooted in experience, the personal experience of those who, having with their own eyes seen Jesus crucified and buried ...

Francis waved from the balcony and then asked a Vatican archbishop to read his speech, a global appeal for peace in the world's hotspots that is the hallmark of the Vatican's Easter celebrations.