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Christmas, Pope and Holy Door

CBS News · 16h

Pope shares Christmas message, marking start of the 2025 Holy Year for Catholics worldwide

Pilgrims lined up to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome as Christmas marks the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration.

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

Pilgrims traverse Vatican Holy Door as Christmas marks start of the 2025 Holy Year

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message has urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this Holy Year “to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions” plaguing the world,

Bozeman Daily Chronicle · 23h

Pope opens Vatican Holy Door, spiritual portal launching Christmas rituals

Pope Francis opened the first of five Holy Doors, signifying spiritual portals, on Christmas Eve as part of ancient rituals that launched the Roman Catholic Church’s holy year

Mid-Day on MSN · 1d

Pilgrims walk through Vatican Holy Door

Pilgrims lined up early on Wednesday to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica, as Christmas marked the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration that is expected to bring some 32 million Catholic faithful to Rome.

Associated Press · 1d

Catholic faithful cross Holy Door in the Vatican to receive indulgence

Faithful from all over the word started flocking to St. Peter’s square and lining up braving chilly temperatures to cross the Holy Door on Wednesday and thus receive the Catholic Church indulgence for their sins.

Pope Francis, Rome and Holy Door

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Pope Francis opens symbolic Holy Door in Rome’ prison

Pope Francis, marking the Holy Year of the Catholic Church on Thursday, opened the symbolic Holy Door at a prison in Rome, offering a message of hope and forgiveness to inmates. The 88-year-old Catholic pontiff told the prisoners during the ceremony not to lose hope.

DPA International on MSN · 2d

Pope Francis to open Holy Year 2025 on Christmas Eve

Pope Francis will open the Holy Year of the Catholic Church in St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday evening. In a solemn ceremony on Christmas Eve, the 88-year-old pontiff will open the Holy Door, which is otherwise walled up from the inside,

Don't lose hope, pope says as he opens Holy Door at Rome prison

"I wanted all of us, inside or out, to have an opportunity to throw open the doors of our hearts and understand that hope does not disappoint."

2don MSN

A Holy Year is about to start in Rome. Here’s what that means

Pope Francis is formally inaugurating the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to ...

Milwaukee Independent2d

Holy Year: Papal festivities expected to aggravate housing crisis as overtourism pushes out Romans

Rome’s relationship with Jubilees dates to 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII inaugurated the first Holy Year in what historians ...

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Pilgrims traverse Vatican Holy Door as Christmas marks the start of the 2025 Holy Year

Pilgrims lined up early Wednesday to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica, as Christmas ...

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