Preparing for Jubilee
Up to 33 million pilgrims are expected to visit Rome next year for the Jubilee, a Catholic tradition held every 25 years to provide an opportunity for celebration, spiritual renewal and forgiveness.
Up to 33 million pilgrims are expected to visit Rome next year for the Jubilee, a Catholic tradition held every 25 years to provide an opportunity for celebration, spiritual renewal and forgiveness.
This Christmas, the Archdiocese of Yangon is calling for urgent support to bring the gift of clean water to vulnerable families affected by the ongoing conflict in Myanmar.
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The 2025 Jubilee Year will officially open on December 24 at 7pm with a Mass presided over by Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square, followed by the rite of the Opening of the Holy Door.
The final document of the second session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod includes a “concrete proposal of a new vision that overturns established practices”.
Caritas Lebanon distributed more than 134,000 hot meals, 1000 dignity kits, 1327 mattresses, 1328 blankets, 776 hygiene kits and 756 baby kits to displaced persons over a three-day period last month.
Sandhurst Bishop Shane Mackinlay has been elected to a commission charged with overseeing the drafting of the final document of the Synod on Synodality.
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