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Jubilee 2025

A visitor touches the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2024, after it was opened by Pope Francis during Christmas Mass the night prior to mark the start of the Holy Year 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope opens Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, launching 'Jubilee of Hope'

December 31, 2024

Attendees participate in an evening prayer service with Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica for New Year's Eve at the Vatican Dec. 31, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope gives thanks for Jubilee preparations at New Year's Eve vespers

December 31, 2024

A worker uses a chisel to remove a box that had been cemented into the Holy Door at the basilica at the end of the Jubilee of Mercy in 2016 during a ceremony in the basilica Dec. 2, 2024. The box was removed in preparation for Pope Francis opening the Holy Door Dec. 24. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Preparations begin for opening Holy Doors at Vatican, Rome basilicas

December 17, 2024

Holy Year 2025 website to go live; registration opens in fall

Holy Year 2025 website to go live; registration opens in fall

May 22, 2023

A woman touches a gold cross on the Holy Door before Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington in this Dec. 8, 2015, file photo. Pope Francis has approved the theme "Pilgrims of Hope" to be the motto for the Holy Year 2025. (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)

Vatican announces 'Pilgrims of Hope' as motto for Holy Year 2025

January 20, 2022