VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw some 32 million pilgrims to Rome in a test of the pope ...

The Scandinavian island nation of Iceland celebrates its national patron, St. Thorlak Thorhallsson, on Dec. 23.

The Holy Father noted that ‘Lucy is a woman’ and that her holiness shows the Church ‘how unique are the ways in which women follow the Lord.’ Statue of St. Lucy at the New Chapel of St ...

(OSV News) — Basilan Sisters and some 80 children in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia narrowly avoided being killed in a deadly Dec. 6 strike by Russia, as they celebrated a liturgy marking the ...

The annual Catholic Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be held ... Our Lady of Guadalupe, who appeared to Saint Juan Diego on Dec. 12, 1531. Temperatures are expected to be very cold Wednesday ...

But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” (Mt 11:18-19) When looking at the huge variety of saints we have, from early Roman martyrs like St. Lucy, whom we celebrate today, to well-known holy ...

Pius VII returned in triumph to Rome. Twelve months later, the Pope decreed that the feast of Mary Help of Christians, be kept on the 24th of May. St. John Bosco (1815 - 1888) was a dynamic priest ...

The holiday ends with a Solemn Mass in the name of the Church of St Paul's Shipwreck, one of Valletta's oldest churches. And traditionally, you can watch fireworks over Grand Harbor. History of the ...

On a cloudy afternoon with the threat of rain Dec. 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception ... With the theme, “Pilgrims of Hope,” the pope plans to open the Holy Year at St. Peter’s Basilica before ...

Saint Joseph’s Day gradually began to be celebrated in Ancient and Medieval times, and was well established by the 900’s. But it was only made official by Pope Pius V in 1570. Mainly, in Vatican City ...

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Pope Francis is going electric for the 2025 Jubilee ... The 2025 Jubilee begins on Dec. 24 with the Opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter's Basilica, and runs through Jan. 6.