A jubilee is one of the most significant events of the Catholic Church that occurs only every 25 years. With the beginning of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, there are many questions the faithful ...

(photo: Daniel Ibanez / EWTN) The Editors Editorial January 3, 2025 Much of the Catholic media is currently buzzing about the launch of the 2025 Jubilee, a once-every-quarter-of-a-century year of ...

The entry of the jubilee cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29 marked the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land. The event, celebrated on the feast ...

Pilgrims who visit Rome during the jubilee, a holy year celebrated every 25 years, will have the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence by passing through the doors. Pilgrims pass through ...

The aim of the Jubilee, he said, is “to bring hope to the interminable, dreary days of prisoners, to the cold and dismal lodgings of the poor and to all those places desecrated by war and ...

(RNS) — The pope’s appeal was made for the World Day of Peace, coinciding with the launch of the 2025 Jubilee year. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the year 2000, then-Pope John Paul II appealed to ...

Tourists visiting Rome’s Trevi Fountain this week were clearly disheartened. The spectacular Baroque masterpiece, completed in 1762 and made famous in modern culture by its backdrop roles in ...

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Pope Francis officially launched the 2025 Holy Year on Christmas Eve by opening the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, an event expected to draw over 30 million pilgrims to the Italian capital ...

In a message for world peace, Francis referred to St. John Paul II’s admonition in Jubilee Year 2000 that debt “threatens the future of many nations.” He noted that many countries “are in ...