2025 Jubilee

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Pope Francis opens the Holy Door in L'Aquila, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2022.

Vatican says five Holy Doors will be opened during 2025 Jubilee, including at a prison 

Aug 2, 2024

By Kristina Millare

The Jubilee of Hope will take place from Dec. 24, 2024 — Christmas Eve — to Jan. 6, 2026, the... Read more

Pope Francis presides over Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 29, 2024.

‘Open the doors’ of the Church, Pope Francis implores on solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul

Jun 29, 2024

By Kristina Millare

The pope addressed thousands gathered within St. Peter’s Basilica amid renovation projects in preparation for the upcoming 2025 Jubilee Year... Read more

Workers in Rome discovered a centuries-old skeleton during a June 2024 construction dig near the Vatican for one of the building projects for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee.

Workers discover human skeleton during Jubilee construction dig in Rome

Jun 11, 2024

By Courtney Mares

The skeleton was unearthed during excavations to create an underground motorway that will create a pedestrian-only road to St. Peter’s... Read more

Archbishop Rino Fisichella sat down with EWTN News on April 10, 2024, in Rome.

Pilgrims of hope amid crisis: Archbishop Fisichella on the 2025 Jubilee

Jun 2, 2024

By Andreas Thonhauser

Archbishop Rino Fisichella is the pro-prefect for the Section of New Evangelization of the Dicastery for Evangelization. Read more

Construction projects are underway in Rome as the city prepares for the 2025 Jubilee Year.

Here’s how the city of Rome is preparing for the 2025 Jubilee Year

May 18, 2024

By Kristina Millare

Approximately 358 planned projects in the Lazio region, where Rome is located, are underway in preparation for the 2025 Jubilee... Read more

Pope Francis announced the start of a Year of Prayer in his Angelus address from the window of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on Jan. 21, 2024.

Pope Francis announces Year of Prayer to prepare for 2025 Jubilee

Jan 21, 2024

By Courtney Mares

In his Angelus address, the pope said that a Year of Prayer starting Jan. 21 will be “a year dedicated... Read more

Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 15, 2023.

These are Pope Francis’ prayer intentions for 2024

Jan 2, 2024

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

The monthly prayer intentions express the Holy Father’s concerns for humanity and the mission of the Catholic Church. Read more

A member of the maintenance crew at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., places a seal on the Holy Door at the basilica after Archbishop Timothy Broglio blessed the seal and doors on Dec. 3, 2023.

Archbishop Broglio sealed the Holy Door at the National Shrine. What is a Holy Door?

Dec 4, 2023

By Tyler Arnold

The doors at the entrance to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., will... Read more

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Bishop Dominique Rey (left), and Coadjutor Bishop François Touvet of Fréjus-Toulon, France.

French diocese to hold ordinations after two-year halt by Vatican

In an Aug. 2, 2024, interview, Father Marcelo Pérez revealed that a “price” had been put on his life. The priest died Oct. 20, 2024, after being shot by two men after celebrating Mass.

Murdered priest in Mexico remembered as ‘tireless apostle of peace’

The Vatican on Oct. 22, 2024, announced it had accepted the request of Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur, OFM, of Bogor, Indonesia (seen here in 2017), to not be made a cardinal at the Dec. 7 consistory as had been previously announced. The bishop’s request “was motivated by his desire to continue growing in priestly life and in service to the Church and the people of God,” the Holy See Press Office said.

Indonesian bishop declines cardinal appointment to ‘grow in priestly life’

Pope Francis meets with other delegates of the Synod on Synodality at a roundtable discussion in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Oct. 17, 2024.

Live updates: The Synod on Synodality debates the Catholic Church’s future

The Human Exploration Rover Challenge team at St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Diocese of Richmond.

Virginia Catholic school among 2 middle schools in world picked for NASA rover challenge

Father Gustavo Gutierrez Merino, OP, who is regarded as the father of liberation theology.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, ‘father of liberation theology,’ dies at 96

St. John Capistrano and St. Bernardine of Siena. Museum of Fine Arts of Granada. Painting, oil on canvas, by Alonso Cano (1653-1657) for an altarpiece of the disappeared Franciscan convent of San Antonio and San Diego, Granada.

St. John of Capistrano: Franciscan priest and missionary who achieved military victory

The archbishop of Valencia and president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, Jesús González de Zárate, and the apostolic nuncio in Venezuela, Archbishop Alberto Ortega Martín.

Church in Venezuela demands release of minors jailed in election protests

Doctors announce the Women’s Health Declaration at a press conference on Oct. 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Pro-life doctors call for dignified ‘life-affirming’ pregnancy care for women, children

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