Tag: Jubilee
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.
Friends mark priestly milestones
Sydney’s priests came together to celebrate 25, 40, 50 and 60 year jubilee anniversaries of their priesthood at The Good Shepherd Seminary in Homebush for the annual Manly Union lunch.
Pope officially opens the Year of Prayer
With little fanfare, Pope Francis officially opened the Year of Prayer after Mass for the church’s celebration of Sunday of the Word of God.
New School Prayer for 70th Jubilee
By Laura Jane Aulsebrook
In 1952 Australia was celebrating a newly crowned young Queen, the first express train between Melbourne and Adelaide debuted, a loaf...
Australian Iconographer celebrates a triple jubilee
Popular Australian iconographer Michael Galovic says he is full of gratitude for a career spanning half a century which has included artistic opportunities beyond...
