After opening the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Pope Francis December 26 inaugurated the second Holy Door of the ...

Immaculate Atieno is seen in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. Credit: Photo ... Italy’s traditional Christmas witch. A truck delivers Christmas presents and plants in Rome, Italy, Tuesday ...

(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)(Andrew Medichini / AP) VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally inaugurates the 2025 Holy ...

The last regular Jubilee was in 2000, when St. John Paul II ushered in the church ... open this year is located at the chapel of Rome’s Rebibbia prison, to draw attention to the need to ...

The city of Rome is preparing for the Holy Year with hundreds of roadworks and restoration projects. (CNS photo ... 29, St. Mary Major on Jan. 1, and St. Paul’s Outside the Walls on Jan. 5. A Holy ...

(CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY (CNS ... Then, on the other side of St. Peter’s Basilica, in the Paul VI Audience Hall, the Vatican hosted the fifth edition of its “Concert for the Poor.” More ...

Pope Francis arrives at the Rebibbia Prison where ... Door with inmates in Rome, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica to ...

Pope Francis inaugurated the Holy Year at Rome's main prison, spreading hope to inmates. He re-enacted the door-opening gesture performed at St. Peter's Basilica, marking the start of the Jubilee ...

He celebrated the Jubilee at Rome's main prison on Thursday ... "The first Holy Door I opened at Christmas in St. Peter's. I wanted the second one to be here, in a prison," the pope told the ...

Speaking to hundreds of inmates, guards and staff at the Rebibbia prison on the outskirts of Rome, Francis said he wanted to open the door, part of the prison chapel, and one of only five that ...

ROME — Pope Francis ... the door to the chapel at Rebibbia prison and walked across the threshold, reenacting the gesture he performed at the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica two nights ...