She has blue hair, muddy boots and wears a yellow raincoat. Meet Luce, the official Vatican mascot for the upcoming Jubilee Year.
Meet Luce, the 2025 Jubilee mascot
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, Local News, News
Jubilee 2025
Opening up bricked-in doors
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Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025
Splendor and reverence are largely absent from our daily lives, and mostly abandoned by the dominant secular culture that casualizes almost everything.
Support of pontifical missions reflects Jesus’ love for poor, pope says
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, Missions, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis praised Catholics who support the Pontifical Mission Societies’ work with the poor and those on the margins of society, saying such assistance is a concrete expression of Jesus’ love.
Jesus is the path and destination for Jubilee pilgrims, pope says
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis called on Catholics to focus their Holy Year 2025 pilgrimages on Jesus Christ, who is both the path and destination for Christian hope.
Vatican chooses prisons as starting point for Jubilee art projects
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, an award-winning poet, believes art can heal people, including prisoners, and can help them find the right path forward.
10 things to know about Jubilee 2025, the Holy Year that begins Dec. 24
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OSV News
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Here are 10 things to know about the upcoming Jubilee Year.
8 ways to celebrate Jubilee 2025 without leaving your diocese
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, World News
While numerous events are planned in Rome and at the Vatican to mark the Jubilee 2025, this Holy Year is for the whole church. Here are some ways to celebrate without traveling farther than your local cathedral.
Vatican registers Italian LGBTQ+ group for Holy Year pilgrimage
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
An Italian association for LGBTQ+ Christians, their parents and the priests and religious who minister with them is among the many groups registered to make a pilgrimage together through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.
Pope calls for end to foreign debt, death penalty ahead of Jubilee Year
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a fixed percentage of arms spending to a global fund to fight hunger and climate change, and to cancel the international debt of developing nations as concrete ways to usher in a new era of hope.
Amid Christmas and Jubilee preparations, prepare your hearts, pope says
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
With the city of Rome presenting a gauntlet of major roadworks and construction projects ahead of the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis used the disruptions as an opportunity to encourage people to do some spiritual renovation before the jubilee.
Radio Interview: The Jubilee Year of Hope
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, Local News, News, Radio Interview
Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty sat down with Marilyn Santos, associate director of Evangelization and Catechesis for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who will be coordinating resources for dioceses and parishes to use to help celebrate the jubilee. Gunty also talks with Religious Sister of Mercy Maria Juan Anderson, who is coordinator of the U.S. Bishops’ Office for Visitors to the Vatican in Rome.
‘Pilgrims of Hope’: Vatican prepares to welcome millions for Holy Year
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
The celebration of a Holy Year every 25 years is an acknowledgment that “the Christian life is a journey calling for moments of greater intensity to encourage and sustain hope as the constant companion that guides our steps toward the goal of our encounter with the Lord Jesus,” Pope Francis wrote.
