Luce carries symbols that have been associated with pilgrimage in Europe since the 12th century, particularly with the shrine ...

Just as the star over Bethlehem called to and welcomed everyone to encounter the newborn Jesus, God today calls on the ...

The hope of a new year is here as the Catholic Church enters the 2025 Jubilee, a yearlong period ... Sister Carol Zinn from Leadership Conference of Women Religious and Lonnie Ellis from In ...

(SOUNDBITE OF KNOCKING ON DOOR) RASCOE: All this is to kick off a special Catholic event called a Jubilee year, a religious practice that dates back centuries. Millions of Catholic pilgrims are ...

As the Jubilee Year picks up speed, the faithful must participate by sharing what we have with the disadvantaged, Catholic charity Mary's Meals urged. Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, the founder of Mary's ...

(photo: Daniel Ibanez / EWTN) The Editors Editorial January 3, 2025 Much of the Catholic media is currently buzzing about the launch of the 2025 Jubilee, a once-every-quarter-of-a-century year of ...

Mumbai: The Roman Catholic Church inaugurated Jubilee 2025, a special year-long ... March will be dedicated to migrants and women's issues. Read Also Mumbai's Roman Catholic Church Ordains 10 ...

The first Jubilee was instituted by Pope Boniface VIII in the 1300s and has become a regular event in the Catholic Church. This year Pope Francis chose the theme of hope.

For the Jubilee Year 2025, the experience of arriving in the Eternal City will take on a new direction thanks to the fact that the last stage of the journey has been completely reconfigured with the ...

For the Catholic Church, the Jubilee is the year of forgiveness of sins, reconciliation, conversion and sacramental penance. Since 1450, ordinary Jubilee Years have been celebrated every 25 years ...

VATICAN CITY — (AP) — Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic ... free” card. Francis declared a special Jubilee in 2015-2016 ...