"Let us offer our prayer to the Father so that, like Mary, we may be pilgrims of hope who bring Christ into the world." ...

Catholics will be able to obtain the indulgence on pilgrimages to any holy place of the jubilee, those churches designated ...

The 2025 Jubilee of Hope was officially inaugurated by Pope Francis when he opened the Holy Door of Saint Peter's Basilica on ...

The distinctive dong of an ancient bell accompanied the opening of the Holy Door at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major on Jan.

And in Nairobi, Kenya, scattered fireworks were heard. A Holy Year begins Rome’s traditional New Year’s Eve festivities have an additional draw: the start of Pope Francis’ Holy Year, the ...

However, what was a maximum for his predecessors seems to have become a minimum for Pope Francis, who announced ... joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, also known as the Redemptorists.

In New Orleans, Celebration Is Followed by Terror in the French Quarter The attack left 15 dead and about three dozen injured. The authorities described it as an act ...