Amid security worries, millions of pilgrims are expected to descend on Rome for a Jubilee Year of major Catholic celebrations ...
Over 35 million pilgrims are expected to visit Rome in 2025 seeking forgiveness of sins and a chance to see the pope.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally inaugurates the ... According to the norms issued for the 2025 Jubilee, ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like a Jubilee, as the Vatican and Rome rush to put the final touches on preparations before ...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the year 2000, then-Pope John Paul II appealed to leaders of ... She described capital punishment as a “structural sin” on the books in 55 nations.
In Francis’ 12th Christmas address to the Roman Curia, he reminded them, “An ecclesial community lives in joyful and ...
Speaking over giant screens from Santa Marta, the pontiff blessed the “Bambinelli” and expressed words of sorrow for Gaza in ...
The Jubilee ceremony begins with Pope Francis opening the Holy Door at St Peter's Basilica. The ceremony includes prayers in ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally ... Catholics can obtain an indulgence if they: Pope John Paul II walks through the bronze Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican ...
Pope John Paul II described these Holy Doors in his declaration of the 2000 Jubilee by saying: "It evokes the passage from ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS ... of forgiveness and rehabilitation,” he wrote. The pope’s third appeal follows “in the footsteps of St. Paul VI and Benedict XVI,” he wrote.
Catholics will be able to obtain the indulgence on pilgrimages to any holy place of the jubilee, those churches designated ...