Dec 10, 2024 · The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica is seen over a cloth barricade reading “Rome Jubilee 2025” that surrounds a construction site at the beginning of the broad boulevard leading to St. Peter’s Square Dec. 4, 2024.

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Dec 16, 2024 · As 2024 comes to a close, we’re already turning our eyes toward 2025 and the much-anticipated Jubilee Year of the Catholic Church—a tradition celebrated every 25 years.

Dec 2, 2024 · The solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, which commemorates Mary’s preservation from original sin from the moment she was conceived, is observed annually Dec. 8 as a holy day of obligation.

Aug 14, 2024 · The starvation cell, where St. Maximilian Kolbe and others spent the last days of their lives, is in the basement of block 11 in Auschwitz I at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum in Oswiecim, Poland.

Jan 10, 2025 · Among the trials we face and the troubled waters we pass through are the destructive effects of wars – particularly in the Middle East – on nations, cultures and peoples, especially women and children; the social injustices that plague the poor; the violence in our country; the growing drug culture and abortion industry here in South Jersey; the failure to provide affordable care for the ...

Nov 22, 2024 · “Yes, he is a modern saint,” Bethge continued. “But it has little to do with the old idea of sanctity and purity. He was a man of action whose sharp theological insights and Christian responsibility compelled him to act decisively in the real world of dirt, difficulty and danger.”

Jan 5, 2025 · “The door of God’s heart is always open. His hope does not disappoint.” These were among the uplifting sentiments as Bishop Dennis Sullivan opened the 2025 Jubilee Year in the Diocese of Camden this afternoon with Mass at …

Dec 13, 2024 · This Christmas Eve, December 24, his holiness Pope Francis in Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome, will open what is called the Jubilee year. Prior to the first Mass of Christmas, the pope will open the Holy Door to commence the Jubilee Year 2025.

Jan 8, 2025 · Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez is seen delivering the homily in a June 23, 2024, file photo. In a Jan. 5, 2025, pastoral letter, Archbishop Pérez unveiled a decade-long plan to counter declining numbers of faithful and active priests by creating at least 50 “missionary hubs” across the archdiocese to reach those distant and disengaged from the church.