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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Traversing the Holy Door is one way that the faithful can obtain indulgences, or forgiveness for sins during a Jubilee, a once-every-quarter-century tradition that dates from 1300. On Christmas ...

Pope Francis, contrary to what he did during the 2015 Jubilee of Mercy, when he personally opened the Holy Door at the Lateran, entrusted this task to the newly appointed cardinal. This decision ...

Pope Francis has opened a "Holy Door" for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year at a prison, marking the first one opened at such an institution since the Jubilee tradition began in 1300. He celebrated the ...

ROME — Pope Francis made a visit on Thursday to one of the largest prison complexes in Italy, opening a special “Holy Door” for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, in what the Vatican said was the ...