The distinctive dong of an ancient bell accompanied the opening of the Holy Door at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major on Jan.

The Jubilee year was officially opened by Pope Francis on Christmas Eve at St. John’s Basilica in Rome. However, on Sunday, he opened the doors to Rome’s Cathedral Church, the archbasilica of ...

The ceremony inaugurated the once-every-25-year tradition of a Jubilee, in which the Catholic faithful make pilgrimages to ...

For Jubilee 2025 pilgrims, the experience of arriving in Rome will be new due to the reconditioning of a disused stretch of ...

WITH the solemn rite of opening the Porta Sancta (the "Holy Door") — much simplified from earlier, more elaborate but richly symbolic ceremonies — Pope Francis opened the Jubilee Year in Rome. It has ...

Between Christmas Eve and Jan. 5, the Pope will open a series of holy doors in the Vatican and throughout Rome, signifying the start of a Jubilee year. It is a year of forgiveness, reconciliation ...

On the feast of the Holy Family, Cardinal Baldassare Reina opened the Holy Door at Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, the third such ceremony since Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee Year of ...

The ceremony inaugurated the once-every-25-year tradition of a Jubilee, in which the Catholic faithful make pilgrimages to Rome. Francis has dedicated the 2025 Jubilee to the theme of hope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally inaugurated the 2025 Holy Year, reviving ... four papal basilicas in Rome or the Holy Land, or other sacred Jubilee sites “so as to ...

Jimenez invites everyone to an 11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass commencing the Jubilee Year of Hope for the Archdiocese ... Basilica on the evening of Dec. 24 in Rome. He reassured the faithful during ...