Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition. KUOW is Seattle ...

Peter's Basilica. (SOUNDBITE OF KNOCKING ON DOOR) RASCOE: All this is to kick off a special Catholic event called a Jubilee year, a religious practice that dates back centuries. Millions of ...

Cardinal Jose Advincula launched the Jubilee Year in the Manila archdiocese on Monday, urging the faithful not to lose hope despite life’s challenges. In his homily during Mass at the Manila Cathedral ...

The smiling character, dressed in a yellow raincoat and muddy boots, was unveiled by the Vatican’s chief Jubilee organiser, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, who said the aim was to engage with “the pop ...

Jesus and the Jubilee, written by biblical scholar John Bergsma, is a well-timed book coinciding with the start of the 2025 Jubilee on the theme of hope. The new Jubilee is a yearlong season of ...

Jubilee 2025 began on Christmas Eve 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s in Rome, and will conclude on Jan. 6, 2026, when that door of the Vatican basilica is closed.

"A true and lasting peace that goes beyond quibbling over the details of agreements and human compromises," he said. The pope also called for international debt forgiveness during the Catholic ...

At the opening of the Ordinary Jubilee Year of Hope 2025 in the Archdiocese of Manila held late Monday afternoon, Advincula said in his mass homily at the Manila Cathedral that at a time when less ...

WITH the opening of the Jubilee Year on Monday, Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula reminded the faithful that true hope cannot be stolen or lost, for it is a gift from God. In his homily ...

For the Jubilee Year 2025, the experience of arriving in the Eternal City will take on a new direction thanks to the fact that the last stage of the journey has been completely reconfigured with the ...

The head of the Catholic bishops’ leadership urged the faithful to embrace the Jubilee Year as an opportunity for spiritual renewal and structural reform within the Church. “Let us not waste the grace ...