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Jubilee 2025

What is a jubilee?

March 10, 2025
By Father James Goodwin
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025

The roots of a jubilee year are found in Scripture. As described in Leviticus 25, every 50th year was to be celebrated as a jubilee year in which all debt was forgiven, slaves were freed and their ancestral lands could be reclaimed.

Pope calls artists to be ‘custodians of the beatitudes’ during Jubilee

February 17, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

Artists and cultural figures must be “custodians of the beatitudes,” embracing their vocation to create beauty, reveal truth and inspire hope in a troubled world, Pope Francis wrote to people participating in the Jubilee for Artists and the World of Culture.

Basilicas, churches and shrines across U.S. are Jubilee 2025 pilgrimage sites

February 17, 2025
By Jack Figge
OSV News
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, World News

In the United States, bishops could designate churches, cathedrals, shrines, monasteries, or other religious locations as “jubilee pilgrimage sites.”

Pope: Vocation of military and police is to defend life, peace, justice

February 10, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Uncategorized, Vatican, World News

Thanking members of the military and the police for their service, Pope Francis asked them to be on guard against seeing other people as enemies and instead dedicate their lives to defending life, peace and justice.

A hymn to human dignity

February 10, 2025
By Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P.
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care, Jubilee 2025

Let’s get started and lend our voices to this symphony through our charity to the sick and the elderly on the World Day of the Sick!

Higher mission: Military, police recommit to faith during Jubilee

February 7, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

A group of U.S. pilgrims who crossed the threshold of the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Mary Major Feb. 6 have traveled the world on the orders of superiors, but no one ordered them to make this trip and that made a huge difference, they said.

Warm welcome, hot tickets: Sisters help U.S. visitors see the pope

February 6, 2025
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, World News

After requesting tickets online before beginning their journeys, the visitors pick up their tickets at the office in Rome and receive clear information on when to get to the Vatican for the audience and what to bring or not bring — metal water bottles and rolling suitcases topping the no-no list.

Pope: Giving marginalized people hope is key to peace

January 30, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

Nations should put people affected by poverty, illness, migration and other marginalized groups at the heart of social and economic considerations during the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis said.

Lunar New Year coinciding with Jubilee Year seen as time for ‘change, renewal’

January 29, 2025
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, World News

Coinciding with the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year, the Lunar New Year “can be a time of change and renewal” of faith, two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen said in a special message to Catholics from Asian cultures who celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Guiding souls: Jubilee volunteers lead pilgrims across Holy Door

January 26, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

Before the millions of pilgrims expected to come to Rome during the Holy Year 2025 cross through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, they will be met by smiling faces and lime green jackets.

Vatican official asks journalists to share Holy Year hope, grace

January 24, 2025
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Journalism, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

The hope and grace that come from taking part in a Jubilee celebration is not a personal privilege, but must communicated and shared with others, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief Vatican organizer of the Holy Year 2025.

Let hope lead your lives, pope tells seminarians

January 17, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News

During the Holy Year 2025, which is centered on proclaiming a message of hope, Pope Francis told future priests to let hope be the guiding principle of their lives.

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