As the Jubilee year kicks off in Rome, more than half a million visitors have flocked to the Vatican to walk through the Holy ...

From his wheelchair, Francis knocked a few times and the great Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica swung open. He was wheeled across the threshold as bells tolled across Rome and the choir inside ...

Many paused to touch the door as they passed and made the sign of the cross upon entering the basilica dedicated to St. Peter, founder of the Roman Catholic Church. Inside, the beauty of a newly ...

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Pope Francis carries the statue of the Child Jesus to place in the Nativity scene inside St. Peter's Basilica at the end of Mass on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2024, surrounded by children dressed in ...

Pope Francis has opened the great Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. The ceremony kicks off the 2025 Holy Year. It's a ...

Vatican cooperation with major IT corporations inspired the creation of a “digital twin” of St Peter’s for the 2025 Jubilee ... model of the Vatican basilica which “The digitisation ...

Pilgrims who visit Rome during the jubilee, a holy year celebrated every 25 years, will have the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence by passing through the doors.

Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy poses after after a consistory inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Aug. 27, 2022. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.) Listen NEW YORK – In opening remarks as ...

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The doors are located at the basilicas of St Peter, St John Lateran ... the brick wall that covers each door from the inside of the basilica, followed by the Pope pushing the doors open to ...