An investigation is underway after a fire broke out at a Brooklyn church on Easter Sunday.
On Holy Saturday, hundreds of people were baptized at the Easter Vigil in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
At the Vatican, Pope Francis presided over Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, where he appealed for peace in the world.
The season of Eastertide is just beginning, a time between Easter and Pentecost in which the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus’ disciples on the seventh Sunday after Easter.