Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of Saint Peter's Basilica, this evening, 24 December 2024, ushering in the ...

Over 35 million pilgrims are expected to visit Rome in 2025 seeking forgiveness of sins and a chance to see the pope.

The rite of opening the Holy Doors of the main basilicas of Rome to inaugurate the 2025 Jubilee Year is perhaps one of the ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like a Jubilee, as the Vatican and Rome rush to put the final touches on preparations before ...

Mother Teresa of St. Augustine and her 15 companions, who were guillotined in Paris as they sang hymns of praise, are now saints in the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis will open the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica, beginning the Jubilee of Hope 2025, in which 30 million people ...

For the past 45 years, the Pope has been using 'Popemobiles' supplied by Mercedes-Benz. But now, for the first time, Pope ...

The Pope will open the "Jubilee" or "Holy Year 2025" on Christmas Eve. What does that entail? And why is Rome expecting millions of visitors?

VATICAN—Pope Francis has declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne—who were executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution—as saints through the rare procedure of ...

On the Sunday after Christmas, the Archdiocese of Boston will join the Holy Father and the rest of the Catholic Church in celebrating a Jubilee Year, titled ...

Jn 10:7,9) of our salvation, whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere, and to all as ‘our hope’ (1 Tim 1:1),” Pope Francis wrote in the Papal Bull. A Jubilee is a special ...

As many as 35 million visitors are expected in Rome in 2025. Many of them will be pilgrims for the upcoming jubilee, a holy year the church celebrates every quarter-century. While numero ...