The iconic sculpture’s journey from the Vatican to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York was a monumental feat of faith and ...

Is there an approach to forgiveness that honors human agency, requires neither apologies nor reconciliation, needn't be ...

A plenary indulgence is remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.

The first Holy Year was called in 1300, and in recent times they are generally celebrated every 25 to 50 years. Pilgrims who participate can obtain “indulgences” — the centuries-old feature of the ...

Pope Francis on December 24 inaugurated the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome. One of the symbolic images of every Jubilee is ...

Amid security worries, millions of pilgrims are expected to descend on Rome for a Jubilee Year of major Catholic celebrations ...

For many years St. Christopher School in Metairie has participated in Cross Catholic Outreach’s “Box of Joy” program to send ...

Pope Francis on Christmas Eve formally inaugurates the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the ...

Donations are continually needed to help in these efforts; $9 million has been contributed worldwide in the past three months ...

(Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory, in a decree issued on Dec. 12, 2024, named Jubilee Churches for sacred pilgrimages ...

These anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic protests culminated in riots in Philadelphia in 1844; St. Louis in 1854, Cincinnati ...