Tag: Holy Year 2025

An uneasy calm hangs over Aleppo, Christian leaders report, following the recent lightning takeover of Syria's second-largest city by Islamist rebels driving out forces...

VATICAN CITY -- Hours after the last visitors and pilgrims left St. Peter's Basilica for the day, a chisel clanged and dust flew as...

BUENOS AIRES -- In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for a...

VATICAN CITY -- With the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis' schedule of liturgies in December and January has expanded. The pope, who...

VATICAN CITY -- To help people who cannot travel to Rome but want to pray at the tomb of St. Peter and cross the...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis is asking parishes, Catholic institutions and religious congregations in Rome to celebrate the Holy Year 2025 by offering a...

VATICAN CITY -- With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope as...

VATICAN CITY -- Two days after opening the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica to inaugurate the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis will travel...

VATICAN CITY -- While bishops around the world are asked to designate their cathedrals or other significant churches as special places of pilgrimage and...

VATICAN CITY -- Jesus Christ is the heart of ecumenism, Pope Francis told leaders and representatives of the Lutheran World Federation. "He is divine mercy...