Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
The pope’s message encouraging prayers “for pilgrims of hope” was released by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network Dec. 3.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Hours after the last visitors and pilgrims left St. Peter’s Basilica for the day, a chisel clanged and dust flew as a group of prelates chanted their prayers before a simple wall marked with a cross.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
With the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis’ schedule of liturgies in December and January has expanded.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025
Food can serve as a powerful force for forging deeper connections. Through the rituals of cooking and eating, we feed our friendships, creating lasting memories one bite at a time.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Saints, Vatican, World News
Starting in the Holy Year 2025, local churches worldwide will annually honor the saints, blesseds and other holy figures connected to their communities, Pope Francis announced.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis is asking parishes, Catholic institutions and religious congregations in Rome to celebrate the Holy Year 2025 by offering a home to someone who is without.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Before Pope Francis presides over Mass Nov. 17 for the World Day of the Poor, he will bless 13 keys to represent the 13 new houses he has pledged to pay for in Syria during the Holy Year 2025, the Vatican said.
