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 ...

Pope Francis made a visit on Thursday to one of the largest prison complexes in Italy, opening a special "Holy Door" for the ...

As had already happened during the Immaculate Conception rite in Piazza di Spagna on December 8th, when two animal rights ...

U.S. Cardinal James M. Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, opens the Holy Door of ...

"Let us offer our prayer to the Father so that, like Mary, we may be pilgrims of hope who bring Christ into the world." ...

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

Pilgrims from around the world are passing through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, which Pope Francis opened to begin ...

The papal basilica, also known as the 'Bethlehem of the West,' houses both the venerated icon of Mary and relics of Christ’s ...

Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the ...

Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving ...