‘The city is expected to be very busy, particularly when the bigger events take place including ... to the 2025 Holy Year, or the Jubilee, which is one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

It will be the second of five Holy Doors the Holy Father will open during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope taking place from Dec. 24 ... of the Holy Door in the Roman prison will be a “symbol ...

Christ also bids farewell to his followers and prophesizes that one of them will betray him and hand him over to the Roman soldiers ... sundown- the Holy Thursday Liturgy takes place, marking ...

Mr. Eban noted the extent of Israel’s cooperation with Roman Catholic Holy Year pilgrims in recent months and observed: “It may well be that full security for the Holy Places could be ...

Francis visited the same Roman prison on Holy Thursday in 2018 to celebrate the mass “In Coena Domini” -- or The Lord’s Supper -- with the traditional rite of washing feet to commemorate ...

Pope Pius XI last week appointed Andrew Francis Cardinal Fruhwirth, papal nuncio at Munich, to be Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church. Thereby His Holiness revived an office, founded originally to ...

Pope Francis blows a kiss to inmates unable to meet him personally during a Holy Thursday visit to Rome's Regina Coeli jail April 17. The pope met with about 70 inmates, along with the prison ...

Pope Francis meets with inmates during his visit to the Regina Coeli penitentiary in Rome on Holy Thursday, Thursday, April 17, 2025. Vatican Media via AP, HO Francis visited the same Roman prison ...