Holy See and Italian authorities are collaborating to welcome an estimated 30 million people expected to come to Rome ...

This is a very significant beginning,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief Vatican organizer of the Jubilee Year, said in a ...

Over half a million people have already passed through the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica since Pope Francis opened it on ...

He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up a busy Christmas season on Monday by calling for the faithful to promote a culture of ...

In the quiet of Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, launching what he called a "Jubilee ...

The faithful from different parts of the world and from different walks of life have already passed through the open Holy ...

"May we learn to care for every child born of a woman, above all by protecting, like Mary, the precious gift of life: life in ...

"May the sound of weapons be silenced in Ukraine," Francis said from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to thousands ...

Cardinal Baldassare Reina, Pope Francis’ vicar for the Diocese of Rome, described the event as “a gesture that renews our ...

to become pilgrims of hope, to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions," the pontiff said, speaking from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to a crowd of thousands of people in the ...

For Jubilee 2025 pilgrims, the experience of arriving in Rome will be new due to the reconditioning of a disused stretch of ...