Pope Francis led the world's Roman Catholics into Easter at a Saturday night vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, decrying the 'icy winds of war' and other injustices.
Francis appeared to be well during the Easter Vigil service, during which he baptised eight adult converts to Catholicism.
Easter is the most important day in the Christian liturgical calendar because it commemorates the day the Bible says Jesus rose from the dead. "We may feel helpless and discouraged before the power of evil, the conflicts that tear relationships apart, the attitudes of calculation and indifference that seem to prevail in society, the cancer of corruption, the spread of injustice, the icy winds of war," he said.
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