The encounter was one of a series of Saturday jubilee audiences of 2025, following a first meeting with pilgrims and a heart-to-heart with journalists. Pope Francis delivers his catechesis during the ...

Prayers filled St. Peter’s Basilica Sunday as Archbishop Rino Fisichella delivered Pope Francis’ prepared homily to over 4,000 permanent deacons gathered for a special jubilee Mass, while the pontiff ...

JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza right now, but is needed more than ever, local Catholic leaders say. While few ...

Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special Jubilee Year coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi.

Pope Francis encouraged university students linked to Opus Dei to share “the Gospel of Jesus Christ, dead and risen” with everyone during this jubilee year in a message to participants of an ...

Pope Francis has chosen "Migrants, missionaries of hope" as the theme for the Catholic Church's celebration of World Day of Migrants and Refugees, linking the world day to the Jubilee message of hope.

Visitors walk through the Holy Door of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome on Jan. 5, 2025, after its ceremonial opening by U.S. Cardinal James M. Harvey, archpriest of the basilica.

Introduction: The Gospel of Matthew opens with a genealogy that may seem, at first glance, to be a simple list of names. Yet Matthew 1:1–17 is carefully shaped and deeply theological. Matthew is not ...