CBS News An empty St. Peter's Square, more lockdowns mark second Easter amid pandemic For the Vatican, it was another empty Easter after Italy returned to a lockdown amid rising coronavirus cases in Europe. This is now the second holy week Pope Francis has had to celebrate amid the COVID-19 pandemic, making it nearly impossible for him to mingle with the people. This isn't Pope Francis' style: walking the stations of the cross in a deserted St Peter's Square. He usually spends Good Friday at the Colosseum, surrounded by thousands of faithful. "He likes to be with the people. He wants to go to the fringes, to the poorest of the poor, and the pandemic has robbed him of all of that... He said, 'I feel like a prisoner in the Vatican,'" CBS News Vatican contributor Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo told Chris Livesay.