Pope Francis kicked off the first Saturday jubilee audience of 2025 by urging pilgrims to embrace hope as a divine strength that enables new beginnings, drawing inspiration from St. John the Baptist.

Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Christmas Eve, officially launching the Jubilee Year 2025. “O Christ, bright star of the morning, incarnation of ...

JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza right now, but is needed more than ever, local Catholic leaders say.

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 ...

The Catholic Jubilee Year, established in 1300 by Pope Boniface VIII, is rooted in the Jewish tradition of releasing prisoners, forgiving debts, and restoring harmony every 50 years. During the ...

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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 ...

The next and first full moon of the year, also known as the Wolf Moon, will be in peak view on Monday. January's full moon will reach peak illumination at 5:27 p.m. ET on Monday, according to NASA.

Pope Francis will mark Christmas Eve on Tuesday with a special ceremony launching Jubilee 2025, a year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome. The 88-year-old ...

This is the message I wanted to give you. Do not lose hope." Francis opened the Catholic Holy Year, also known as a Jubilee, on Tuesday. A Catholic Jubilee is considered a time of peace ...

The aim of the Jubilee, he said, is “to bring hope to the interminable, dreary days of prisoners, to the cold and dismal lodgings of the poor and to all those places desecrated by war and ...

December is coming to an end with a "black moon" on Monday night, Dec. 30, but those hoping to see the phenomenon will be out of luck. That's because a black moon is the term for the second new ...