Jubilee Year 2025

Editorial

Be pilgrims on digital journey

Sister Hosea Rupprecht · January 23, 2025

The Jubilee Year 2025 is upon us, and Pope Francis has asked that we all attempt to be “pilgrims of hope” to witness to the love and power of Jesus Christ in the world today. What does that mean in practical terms? How am I to be a pilgrim of hope to the world?

Canadian Catholics welcome Jubilee year of hope

A grace-filled opportunity, says Cardinal Leo, to encounter the Lord

Canadian Catholic News · January 8, 2025

Catholics across Canada welcomed Jubilee Year 2025 at churches and cathedrals nationwide with Masses celebrating the historic event as well as the Feast of the Holy Family.

St. Peter's Holy Door sees more than half million pilgrims in two weeks

Justin McLellan · January 7, 2025

More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the first two weeks after Pope Francis opened it.

Cardinal Leo launches a Jubilee year of renewal

Luke Mandato · December 30, 2024

Toronto Catholics welcomed Cardinal Francis Leo back to Toronto following his journey to Rome earlier this month where he was elevated to the College of Cardinals.

Pope Francis opens Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, launching 'Jubilee of Hope'

Cindy Wooden · December 25, 2024

In the quiet of Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, launching what he called a "Jubilee of Hope."

Preparations begin for opening Holy Doors at Vatican, Rome basilicas

Cindy Wooden · December 3, 2024

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.

Pope Francis to open Holy Door at Rome prison at beginning of Jubilee 2025

Justin McLellan · October 28, 2024

Two days after opening the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica to inaugurate the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis will travel to a Rome prison to open a Holy Door as a "tangible sign of the message of hope" for people in prisons around the world, the Vatican announced.

Jubilee prep well underway, marking year of hope

Luke Mandato · October 4, 2024

Preparations are well underway for Canadian Catholics to join faithful worldwide as "Pilgrims of Hope" for jubilee year 2025.

Vatican norms for Jubilee indulgence include pilgrimage, penance, service

Cindy Wooden · May 13, 2024

Pilgrims passing through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica during the Holy Year 2025, going to confession, receiving Communion and praying for the intentions of the pope can receive an indulgence, but so can inmates in prison and those who work to defend human life or assist migrants and refugees.