FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — When Jason Whitehead first saw the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee mascot, Luce, it “was a bit of a surprise,” he said.

At least 160,000 devotees woke up early on Thursday to join the foot procession at dawn that kicked off the 11-day ...

The procession served as a visible sign for the public of the jubilee year that Pope Francis initiated for the universal ...

On Tuesday the Vatican announced that after just two weeks since Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee of Hope on Christmas ...

According to tradition and a ritual largely unchanged since the 1500s, the pope would be the first pilgrim to cross the ... crossed through. The Jubilee of 2025 was officially inaugurated.

The first major event that will begin the ordinary Jubilee of 2025. In the photo, Pope Francis opens a Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica to mark the start of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, December 8 ...

More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the first two weeks after ...

More than half a million people passed through the Holy Door at St Peter's in the first two weeks since Pope Francis launched ...

Holy See and Italian authorities are collaborating to welcome an estimated 30 million people expected to come to Rome ...

On the eve of the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, the Second Sunday after Christmas, Cardinal James Harvey, Archpriest ...

In his talk, the Pontiff recalled that a pilgrim is more than a traveler, because he has a particular goal: a holy place. He ...