Pope appears to faithful on video screens

Pope John Paul II’s own suffering kept him away from his flock on Good Friday, but he appeared via video at Rome’s torchlit Colosseum at the Way of the Cross commemoration of Christ’s suffering.

The faithful who had gathered at the Colosseum cheered and waved torches as the Pope appeared on large screens at the start of the evening procession – the first time he has been physically absent in his 26-year pontificate. He did not speak.