Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major, prays in front of the basilica's Holy Door before solemnly closing it Dec. 25, 2025, as the Jubilee Year was ending.

The Jubilee ends — but if your heart stays open, the grace of this holy year doesn’t have to. With just days left in the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, the Church is preparing for a powerful ritual: the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a solemn ceremony on Tuesday morning (Jan. 6), the Feast of the Epiphany, Pope Leo XIV will close the last Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica to mark the end of the Jubilee Year ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday closed out the Vatican's 2025 Holy Year by denouncing today's consumerist and anti-foreigner sentiment, capping a Jubilee that saw some 33 million pilgrims ...

Even in death, Pope Francis remained a trailblazer — becoming the only pontiff to open, but not close, the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in what has become a fateful symbol of his papal legacy.

During his homily, Cardinal Makrickas noted that the 2025 Jubilee has been a unique event in the recent history of the Church, having unfolded under two pontificates. Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas ...

More than 32 million pilgrims passed through Rome’s Holy Doors since their opening, with “incredible peaks” last May following the election of Leo XIV. For the Jubilee — a major event of the Catholic ...

Just a few weeks remain until the closing of the holy year, which was inaugurated by Pope Francis on Dec. 24, 2024. On Jan. 6, 2026, Pope Leo XIV will be the one to close the enormous bronze door of ...

With his death April 21, Pope Francis marked yet another first in the history of the Catholic Church: he became the first pope to open the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica without living to close it.

The path to conversion, the door to God's mercy and the call to live in Christian hope all continue beyond the Jubilee Year, said the three cardinals who closed the Holy Doors at three major basilicas ...

Pope Leo XIV closes St. Peter’s Basilica Holy Door to end the 2025 ordinary Jubilee year, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. Credit: Yara Nardi/Pool photo via AP VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV ...