Access to the Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica will be limited as Pope Francis’s passing triggers a lengthy period of ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

Conclave during the Jubilee: what happens now. The race to succeed Pope Francis who has appointed 70% of the cardinals called ...

The canonisation of the first saint of the millennial generation, Carlo Acutis, has been suspended due to Pope Francis' death ...

Pope Alexander VI established in 1500 many of the customs for Jubilee years, deciding, for instance, that the doors of the four main Basilicas in Rome would be opened for pilgrims to visit and ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 23 - Pope Francis, recuperating after a scary bout of pneumonia, won't be at the next big Jubilee event, the Jubilee of missionaries of mercy on March 28-30 but will send the a ...

The Jubilee dates to 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII invited Catholics to Rome for plenary indulgences, a kind of spiritual “clean slate.” It has taken place on a 25-year cycle since 1450 ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, ...

Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, launching the Jubilee year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome.

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 15 - Pope Francis on Friday called on the diocese of Rome to offer the homeless a home ahead of the Roman Catholic Jubilee Holy Year next year. "In view of the Jubilee ...