The ceremony inaugurates the once-every-25-year tradition of a Jubilee. Francis has dedicated the 2025 Jubilee to the theme ...

Laura Itzkowitz Found at the Piazza di Spagna, the Spanish Steps (which get their name from the nearby Embassy of Spain among the Holy See ... on one of the best Rome tours.

Pope Francis will open five jubilee Holy Doors in the Christmas season ... Sister Tarcisia poses before the Spanish Steps in Rome, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA This year ...

The Holy Stairs, according to tradition, consist of 28 marble steps climbed by Christ during the trial before Pontius Pilate. The steps, brought to Rome in 326 by Saint Helena, mother of ...

“The steps we now take are the steps of the ... and he will underscore that message when he opens a Holy Door on Thursday at Rome’s Rebibbia prison in a bid to give inmates hope for a better ...

On the Feast of the Holy Family the Cardinal Vicar for the Diocese of Rome invites us to pray especially for those families ...

Opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis inaugurates a jubilee year expected to draw 32 ...

"The steps of our journey are the steps of ... This also includes pilgrimage to Rome and passing through the Holy Doors. The 2025 Jubilee officially ends on January 6, 2026. The last regular ...

The second Holy Door of the Jubilee 2025 ... This morning, in good physical shape, he even managed to take several steps on ...

During the first days of the 2025 Jubilee, all attention will understandably be focused on the opening of the Holy Doors in ...