JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza right now, but is needed more than ever, local Catholic leaders say.

The Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian naval ship named after the 15th-century explorer that inspired the name “America,” has been designated a 2025 Jubilee church. Archbishop Santo Marcianò of the ...

This may be the year to skip Rome—or Italy entirely. The Roman Catholic Church is celebrating a jubilee year, a roughly yearlong tradition dating to the early 14th century. During jubilees ...

CHILLICOTHE — The Ross County NAACP will celebrate Jubilee Day on Jan. 19. According to a press release, the event will honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and take place at 3 p ...

A new tour of the Vatican Gardens at the pope’s summer palace in Castel Gandolfo is opening in the spring for jubilee pilgrims who wish to escape the crowds in Rome for a day and immerse ...

For our new year’s journey during this Jubilee Year, Pope Francis reminds all to be “pilgrims of hope” in his Papal Bull entitled “SPES NON CONFUNDIT.“Hope does not disappoint” (Rom5:5).

(Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) Listen As Pope Francis begins a Jubilee based on the motto “Hope does not disappoint,” he may be praying these words will soon apply to an ongoing crisis in ...

Jesus and the Jubilee, written by biblical scholar John Bergsma, is a well-timed book coinciding with the start of the 2025 Jubilee on the theme of hope. The new Jubilee is a yearlong season of ...

The president-elect eschewed the star-spangled “Trump Bible” in favor of volumes with personal and national history.

Pope Francis will officially inaugurate the Jubilee on Christmas Eve at 7pm, when he pushes open the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. Over 30 million pilgrims expected in Rome for the Jubilee ...

The Jubilee is a year-long theater festival which invites participants to produce works written by or about traditionally excluded voices. As of January, 126 theaters around the country have pledged ...

The Catholic Jubilee Year, established in 1300 by Pope Boniface VIII, is rooted in the Jewish tradition of releasing prisoners, forgiving debts, and restoring harmony every 50 years. During the ...