Local Catholics can celebrate the Jubilee Year and a local church’s 125th anniversary at Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church, 313 First Ave., Jessup.

Rome is in the midst of a Holy Year, or Jubilee, when the Vatican offers universal pardon. Jubilees take place every 25 years, though special Jubilees were added to the calendar in 2015 and 1983. As a ...

The King and Queen's state visit to Italy will coincide with the jubilee year, an event in the Catholic calendar that is estimated to bring 30-32 million visitors to Rome across 12 months. Here is ...

Archbishop Ryan P. Jimenez invites everyone to an 11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass commencing the Jubilee Year of Hope for the Archdiocese of Agaña at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagåtña.

Pope Francis has certainly read well the signs - and needs - of the times in proclaiming a Jubilee Year of Hope. Our world is sorely in need of the mindset and values of the jubilee.

During the year, a whole calendar of events in Rome and at the Vatican promise times for papal masses and audiences, pilgrimages to sites in Rome including the Holy Stairs and St Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Francis has proclaimed a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, which began on Dec. 24, 2024, and will continue through Jan. 6, 2026. But what is a Jubilee, and what is this year’s about?

Celebration a Jubilee Year is biblical. In Leviticus 25, the Lord commands the Israelites to observe a Sabbath for the land and to observe the year of Jubilee, a time of liberation and homecoming.

The Jubilee extends this logic. Held every 50 years, the Holy Year follows a Sabbath of Sabbaths, “ seven times seven years.” ...