Pilgrims from around the world have been passing through the open Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica this week.

Pope Francis on December 24 inaugurated the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome. One of the symbolic images of every Jubilee is ...

Amid an unprecedented combination of challenges facing the world today, Pope Francis on Christmas Day entreated that the Jubilee Year of Hope 2025 becomes an opportunity to forgive debts, especially ...

Pope Francis encourages us not to look at the future "with pessimism and resignation," but to always choose the path of love and view ...

The Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Baldassare Reina, has opened the Holy Door of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, where he will ...

Pope Francis, who is 88 and was born in Argentina, gave the Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday, and urged ...

The Pope on Tuesday celebrated the inauguration of the Jubilee Year by symbolically opening the Holy Door of St. Peter’s ...

In his prayer intention for the last month of 2024, Pope Francis called for the upcoming Jubilee of hope to strengthen the Christian faith. He urged Catholics to embrace hope as a transformative ...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.” By Anatoly Kurmanaev Flight ...

Has Russia’s Shadow Fleet, Built to Evade Sanctions, Engaged in Sabotage? Russia has assembled a fleet of hundreds of vessels to covertly ship its oil. The idea of using some to cause havoc may ...

The president-elect made the announcement on Truth Social on Sunday. ABC News’ MaryAlice Parks discusses President Joe Biden's invitation for President-elect Donald Trump to visit the White ...