Tag: Jubilee
Pope Leo calls all Christians to celebrate 2033 anniversary of Christ’s...
Pope Leo XIV is urging Christians around the world to prepare together for 2033, when the Catholic Church will celebrate an extraordinary Jubilee year marking 2,000 years since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Franciscan pilgrims mark Jubilee with Lenten walk to Mary MacKillop’s tomb
Members of the Secular Franciscan Order made a 10-kilometre pilgrimage across Sydney, combining Lenten penance with celebrations for the Jubilee Year of St Francis.
Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of...
Pope Leo XIV has declared 2026, the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi, a jubilee year to help Christians around the world follow in the saint’s footsteps.
Pope sets Jubilee to mark 800th year since St Francis’ death;...
Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special Jubilee Year coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi.
How Kylie found her home in the Catholic Church
As Kylie Beatson stood in front of a packed Moorebank parish with her husband Shane and two youngest teens, about to enter the Catholic Church, she couldn’t help but joyfully ponder on the journey that led her there. This Joy was more than a feeling; it was a bookend to her conversion story that began as a seed in the Great Jubilee of 2000 and eventually came to fruition in the most unexpected way in the Jubilee Year of Hope in 2025.
Pope’s homily for 1 June Mass for Jubilee of Families, Children,...
This is the text of Pope Leo XIV's homily for the Mass celebrated 1 June, 2025, in St Peter's Square that concluded the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly.
Fatima statue to visit Rome for Jubilee of Marian Spirituality
The original statue of Our Lady of Fatima will make a rare journey from its shrine in Portugal to Rome in October 2025 for a Jubilee celebration of Marian spirituality.
Franciscan friars’ app helps tourists find Rome’s “spiritual treasures”
An app to help travellers locate churches, relics, and tombs of saints has been released by a group of Rome-based Franciscan Friars.
Jubilee Year gives new hope for ending, healing from abortion, says...
As the nation's Catholics prepare to commemorate unborn children in prayer, Bishop Daniel E Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, is pointing to the 2025 Jubilee Year as a time of hope for healing from the wounds of abortion.
Vatican chooses prisons as starting point for Jubilee art projects
Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, an award-winning poet, believes art can heal people, including prisoners, and can help them find the right path forward.
Pope’s World Peace Day message to focus on hope, forgiveness
The annual celebration of the World Day of Peace during the Holy Year 2025 will be inspired by "the concepts of hope and forgiveness"—including the forgiveness of foreign debt— "which are at the heart of the Jubilee," the Vatican said.
Did the Catholic Church invent the idea of the Jubilee? You...
With the announcement of the Year of the Jubilee many have asked how we came to celebrate these holy years. Rooted in Jewish tradition and political influences, its origin story is nothing short of uneventful.
