With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...

The following day, on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, Francis and the entire College of Cardinals will celebrate a Mass of thanksgiving together in the Vatican basilica.

Dec. 8 is typically a holy day of obligation celebrating the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, but this year the feast ...

The Vatican wants to have the works completed before the beginning of the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, which starts on Christmas Eve and is expected to draw tens of millions of tourists to Rome.

The mascot, named Luce — which means “light” in Italian — is intended to engage a younger audience and guide visitors through ...

The Vatican has unveiled a new mascot for the ... and is usually celebrated every 25 years. It will begin on Christmas Eve 2024 and end on 6 January 2026.

This week, the nuns’ Vatican-appointed leader announced ... the issue with him on three occasions, including at Christmas Eve Mass in 2022. All conversations were outside confidential confession ...

The much-admired British actor is in fine, dour form here as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, dean of the Vatican’s College ... novel of ideas and ideals than a Mass-market paperback, but paperbacks ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Vatican has unveiled its first-ever ... opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, welcoming an anticipated 30 million pilgrims into Rome ...

(photo: Julia Cassell/EWTN News / EWTN) The Vatican Museums this week unveiled ... “We closed on Christmas Eve 2019; however the actual work on the sculpture — between the research project ...