The diocese will be opening its parishes and homes to travelers — especially for the Jubilee of Teenagers, which will culminate in the canonization of the Italian teenager Blessed Carlo Acutis on ...

ROME – Pope Francis has written a letter to families, parishes and religious communities in the Diocese of Rome urging them to host young pilgrims during events for youth and adolescents during the ...

Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica to mark the start of the Catholic Jubilee Year, at the Vatican, Dec. 24, 2024. (Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP.) Listen ROME – On ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis will open the first Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica, inaugurating the Jubilee year. This important anniversary, celebrated every 25 years, will ...

With roughly €4 billion in investments and more than a thousand construction sites, Rome is racing against the clock ahead of the 2025 Catholic Holy Year – a tradition dating back to 1300, inviting ...

Latin sung over nervous giggles and the intermittent sound of trickling water filled the small room attached to the 16th-century Church of the Most Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims on a mild March evening ...