A start without fanfare, but there is optimism for the coming months. This is the initial assessment of the Jubilee Year that emerges from a survey by Confcommercio Roma (in collaboration with ...

Going on pilgrimage often conjures images of the Holy Land and other far-flung destinations. But when Brian Rademacher ...

A weakened Pope Francis, still recovering after suffering a bout of double pneumonia, delivered the traditional Urbi et Orbi ...

In 1700, Pope Innocent XII, too ill to preside over the opening, gave his blessing from afar but didn’t live to see the Holy Year through. The Jubilee is the biggest event on the Church’s ...

He was due to deliver his traditional Christmas Day blessing, Urbi et Orbi (to the ... being deployed around the Vatican and Rome for the Jubilee celebrations, with measures further tightened ...