Is Costco open on Easter Sunday? What about ALDI? As you plan your weekend, here's what is open and closed on Easter, as well as some local places offering special deals.

Holy Week is a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of events. But as Francis continues to recover from double pneumonia, observers are on the lookout for surprise appearances.

Vance’s visit to the seat of Catholicism during the Church’s holiest days of the year comes under the shadow of his public tiff with an ailing Pope Francis and in the wake of

Pope Francis gave his first public comments since falling ill before his visit to Rome's Regina Caeli prison on Holy Thursday.

Easter weekend began on Good Friday, with many politicians and faith leaders taking to social media to remember the Christian holiday. Good Friday marks the day Jesus Christ died on the cross before rising from the dead three days later,

This year, Easter falls on Sunday, April 20. The date the holiday is celebrated changes depending on the year because it is one of several "moveable feasts" in the liturgical year, according to the History Channel.

Unlike Christmas, there are stores open on Easter Sunday. Easter is on Sunday, April 20. Easter is tied to the lunar cycle and the spring equinox. It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring this year is Thursday,