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

Pope Francis, the first “pilgrim of hope” to cross the Holy Door’s threshold, inaugurated the 2025 Jubilee Year by opening the papal basilica’s door on Dec. 24.

This is a very significant beginning,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief Vatican organizer of the Jubilee Year, said in a ...

Over half a million people have already passed through the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica since Pope Francis opened it on ...

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.

Cardinal James Harvey, a native of Milwaukee, opened the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday.

The holy door at the Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls was opened on Sunday as part of events to mark the start of the ...

Opening the Holy Door at St. Mary Major, Cardinal Rolando Makrickas prayed that the world would entrust itself to Mary, "the ...

"Let us offer our prayer to the Father so that, like Mary, we may be pilgrims of hope who bring Christ into the world." ...

On Christmas Eve in 2024 Pope Francis opened the first Holy Door. One TikToker thinks he heard the screams of a kid possibly ...

Bishops worldwide celebrated the opening of the 2025 Holy Year Dec. 29 with Masses in their cathedrals and co-cathedrals to ...

The first Holy Year was called in 1300, and in recent times they are generally celebrated every 25 to 50 years. Pilgrims who participate can obtain “indulgences” — the centuries-old feature of the ...