Pope Francis declares 2025 as a Jubilee year, themed 'Pilgrims of Hope,' focusing on forgiveness, reconciliation, and the plight of migrants.

“I hope that all pilgrims coming to Rome or celebrating the Jubilee in their own local Church can have this kind of experience: God loves me.” Jubilees have biblical roots, as the Mosaic era ...

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

Jubilee Year 2025, themed “Pilgrims of Hope,” began Dec. 24, 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, and will conclude Jan. 6, 2026. This year of grace offers the Catholic ...

Jubilees are a Catholic Church tradition ... a marketing professor at Luiss University who has studied the topic. Pilgrims tend to have shallower pockets, but such vast visitor numbers are still ...

Amid security worries, millions of pilgrims are expected to descend upon Rome as a Jubilee Year of major Catholic celebrations happens throughout 2025. Here are the highlights. The unlocking of ...

Pope Francis on Friday welcomed a group of children and young people from the Italian Union of Blind and Partially Sighted ...

It has taken place on a 25-year cycle since 1450, making this year’s Jubilee the 27th in history. Holy Years are traditionally hosted by the pope, with Pope Francis choosing “Pilgrims of Hope ...

The perfect pilgrim's kit for Jubilee 2025: a k-way to protect against rain, comfortable shoes for walking on cobblestones, a hat for shading from the sun, but also a smartphone in the pocket ...

Pilgrims from around the world are passing through the open Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, which Pope Francis opened on Christmas Eve to begin the 2025 Jubilee. The pilgrimage to the Holy ...

Opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis inaugurates a jubilee year expected to draw 32 million visitors to Rome.