Pope Francis, the first “pilgrim of hope” to cross the Holy Door’s threshold, inaugurated the 2025 Jubilee Year by opening... Read more Pilgrims who visit Rome during the jubilee, a holy year ...

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

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 ...

Cardinal Baldassare Reina, Pope Francis’ vicar for the Diocese of Rome, described the event as “a gesture that renews our ...

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 Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls was officially opened Sunday by the basilica’s archpriest, Cardinal James Michael Harvey, marking the completion of this sacred tradition at Rome’s ...

As had already happened during the Immaculate Conception rite in Piazza di Spagna on December 8th, when two animal rights ...

Pope Francis has opened a "Holy Door" for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year at a prison in Rome, bringing a message of hope to ...

Pilgrims lined up early Wednesday to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica, as Christmas ...

The doors, located at the papal basilicas in Rome, are only open during Jubilee years. The Vatican said the opening of the "Holy Door" at Rome's Rebibbia prison was the first time such a door had ...