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Jubilee 2025 Youth

Rome to welcome 500,000 young people for Jubilee of Youth

More than half a million young people from 146 countries are set to arrive in Rome on Monday for the start of the weeklong Jubilee of Youth, which will include a special Jubilee dedicated to Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers. Source: OSV News.

Jubilee 2025 Priesthood

Friendship with Christ the spiritual foundation of ordained ministry: Pope 

When a priest has experienced the joy of truly believing in Jesus Christ and embracing him as a friend, it shows, Pope Leo XIV told priests yesterday. Source: OSV News.

Jubilee 2025

Jubilee commission calls for debt relief for struggling nations

The Holy Year 2025 can have a lasting impact on the world’s poorest countries if governments and international institutions adopt a key element of the biblical concept of jubilee by forgiving, restructuring, or pausing foreign debt repayments, according to a report commissioned by Pope Francis. Source: CNS.

Jubilee 2025 People

MGL Sister has her ‘God moment’ in Blessed Sacrament chapel

Australian Missionaries of God’s Love Sister Therese Mills has spoken of her great joy in joining tens of thousands of pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations, and New Communities this weekend. Source: CNA.

Jubilee 2025 Pope Leo XIV

Families the cradle of future of humanity: Pope

Families are the cradle of the future of humanity, Pope Leo XIV said during a Mass concluding the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly yesterday. Source: OSV News.

Jubilee 2025 New Zealand

NZ bishops urge world leaders to work for ‘true’ peace

The New Zealand Catholic bishops have issued a pastoral statement on “Fighting Hopelessness in the Jubilee Year of Hope”. Source: NZCBC.

Jubilee 2025

Jubilee event combines piety, statues and Roman ruins

Under a strong spring sun, hundreds of men processed past ancient Roman ruins carrying statues of the crucified Christ and his sorrowful mother on heavy wood bases. Source: CNS.

Jubilee 2025

Australian benefactors arrive in Rome for Jubilee year pilgrimage

More than 1000 benefactors of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need from 23 different countries – including 25 benefactors from Australia – have arrived in Rome for a Jubilee year pilgrimage starting today.

Disability Jubilee 2025

Rome Mass celebrates Jubilee of People with Disabilities

In a mix of joy, excitement and sadness, families, associations and individuals from all over the world celebrated the Jubilee of People with Disabilities with a Mass yesterday in Rome’s Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls. Source: OSV News.