‘This chaos is well organized’: Bishop Shomali on Holy Week in the Holy Land

This Easter, it is going to be especially crowded the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

On Easter Sunday, Bishop William Shomali will join other members of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Bishop Shomali at Mass in the chapel of the headquarters of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales on April 1, 2025. © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

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