The Jubilee begins with a symbolic moment: the Pope opening the Holy Door, which this year took place on Christmas Eve. The tradition, dating back to the 15th century, sees the Pope open the Holy Door ...

Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major, prays in front of the basilica's Holy Door before solemnly closing it Dec. 25, 2025, as the Jubilee Year was ending.

During his homily, Cardinal Makrickas noted that the 2025 Jubilee has been a unique event in the recent history of the Church, having unfolded under two pontificates. Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Francis is only opening one "sacred portal" on this year's Christmas Eve. The other four will be opened over the following ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his Catholic Church.

While bishops around the world are asked to designate their cathedrals or other significant churches as special places of pilgrimage and prayer for the Holy Year 2025, the Vatican is not asking them ...

When Sharon Hale, of Chapin, South Carolina, learned that Pope Francis had extended the designation of holy doors to dioceses around the world as part of the Church’s Jubilee of Mercy, she was curious ...

The path to conversion, the door to God's mercy and the call to live in Christian hope all continue beyond the Jubilee Year, said the three cardinals who closed the Holy Doors at three major basilicas ...

The path to conversion, the door to God's mercy and the call to live in Christian hope all continue beyond the Jubilee Year, said the three cardinals who closed the Holy Doors at three major basilicas ...