Nurses and Doctors Join Pope On Good Friday

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis is presiding over a torch-lit Good Friday procession in an otherwise empty St. Peter’s Square, with nurses and doctors among those holding a cross as the COVID-19 pandemic upends the traditional ceremony at Rome’s Colosseum. Wearing their white work coats, the Vatican medical personnel provided a stark reminder of how the virus outbreak has infused almost all walks of life. Francis watched from the steps outside St. Peter’s Basilica as the procession, which included a uniformed police officer and a prison chaplain, circled around the square’s central obelisk. Earlier, the papal preacher said pandemic has alerted people to the danger of thinking themselves all-powerful.