Cardinal Baldassare Reina, Pope Francis’ vicar for the Diocese of Rome, described the event as “a gesture that renews our ...

Pope Francis on December 24 inaugurated the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome. One of the symbolic images of every Jubilee is ...

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Two more Holy Doors are scheduled to be opened in the coming days: the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Jan. 5 and the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Jan. 1.

The opening of the Holy Door in the atrium of the Lateran Basilica ... and at St. Paul Outside the Walls on January 5th at 10:00 AM, by Cardinal Archpriest James Harvey. It also coincides with ...

Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to ...

"Let us offer our prayer to the Father so that, like Mary, we may be pilgrims of hope who bring Christ into the world." ...

The Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Baldassare Reina, on Sunday opened the Holy Door of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the third such Jubilee event following last week's opening of Holy Doors at St Peter's ...

The one before that, in 1975, was notable because Pope Paul VI was nearly hit by falling plaster when he opened the Holy Door. The door was still behind a fake wall and Paul had used a ceremonial ...

Holy Doors will also open at Rome's other two major basilicas, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside the Walls, on Jan. 1 and Jan. 5, respectively. Pope Francis also opened Holy Doors on Dec. 26 at Rome ...