Pilgrims who visit Rome during the jubilee, a holy year celebrated every 25 years, will have the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence by passing through the doors.

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 ...

COMMENTARY: The quiet of Christmas Eve and the revelry of New Year’s marked a great moment of history with Pope St. John Paul ...

The holy door at Saint Paul's Outside the Walls was opened on Sunday by the Rome basilica's archpriest, Cardinal James Michael Harvey. It is the fifth and final holy door to be opened in the Italian ...

This Jubilee of 2025 is also the 25th ordinary jubilee since the first one in 1300. Thus, we can justly call it the "jubilee ...

U.S. Cardinal James M. Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, opens the Holy Door of ...

A: The short answer is, a Jubilee Year is a special year of grace and reconciliation. Today, the Catholic Church celebrates a Jubi ...

What is a Holy Door ... “The most famous is that of St. Peter in the Vatican, followed by those of the three major basilicas in Rome: St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, and St ...

The last Jubilee Year was in 2000. Traditionally, there are holy doors only in the four Basilicas of Rome: St. Peter's, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside the Walls. But Pope ...

Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, launching what he called a “Jubilee of Hope.” As the doors opened, the bells of the basilica began to peal. After the reading of a brief ...