Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday received a rock star's welcome at the Vatican's festival of Catholic influencers — priests, nuns and ...

Americans are among pilgrims from nearly 150 countries who've traveled to Rome for the event. Pope Leo will lead prayer ...

Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has urged Catholic influencers to be discerning about the power they wield online and to let ...

The seven-day event during the Jubilee of hope will be “in communion with all of them, because it is for them above all that ...

And on Dec. 24, 2024, Francis officially opened the Vatican's Holy Door marking the start of Jubilee 2025. In the first few weeks of the new year, his calendar was jam-packed with related activities.

Faithful are backdropped by Michelangelo's Pieta' as they walk through the St. Peter's Basilica holy door on the occasion of ...

The Jubilee officially kicked off on Christmas Eve last year, with the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica, and will end on the holy day of the Epiphany, Jan. 6, 2026.

VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his ...

The paragovernmental entity, which employs approximately 25,000 people throughout Italy, is participating in the Catholic Church’s jubilee year with a pilgrimage through the Holy Door and Mass ...

Outside Jubilee years, the doors are sealed with mortar and cement from the inside. In 2016, Pope Francis called for a special Jubilee year, called the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.