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 ...
Pilgrims from around the world have been passing through the open Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica this week.
Amid security worries, millions of pilgrims are expected to descend on Rome for a Jubilee Year of major Catholic celebrations ...
Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving ...
The Pope chose to open the Holy Door at the Rebibbia prison in Italy as his second of five doors during the 2025 Jubilee for ...
Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the church in Rome's Rebibbia prison complex and walked over its threshold. After ...
Three weeks later Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night) premiered at a midnight mass and became a firm favourite amongst French congregations. When Church leaders discovered that Cappeau had formally ...
Celebrity Beyond becomes the best overall cruise ship of 2024, according to the annual Cruise Hive Awards.
51 years ago today, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published The Gulag Archipelago, a literary investigation of the prison-labor camp system in the Soviet Union between 1918 ...