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A Sister of the Missionaries of Charity touches the bronze Holy Door at the papal basilica during its opening for the 2025 Jubilee Year. The religious sister, wearing the distinctive white and blue habit of the order founded by Mother Teresa, joins other faithful in this traditional gesture of devotion as they pass through the ceremonial door on Jan. 1, 2025.

PHOTOS: Holy Door opens at Rome’s Marian marvel as new cardinal highlights hope at St. Mary Major

Jan 1, 2025

By AC Wimmer

The distinctive dong of an ancient bell accompanied the opening of the Holy Door at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary... Read more

Left to right: Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe, Archbishop Fernando Chomali, Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo, Archbishop Rolandas Makrickas, and Bishop Mykola Bychok, CSsR, will be made cardinals in a consistory on Dec. 7, 2024.

New cardinals emphasize Church unity, evangelization ahead of consistory

Dec 6, 2024

By AC Wimmer, Bénédicte Cedergren, Marco Mancini

“I am with my heart, and I would say with my whole body, for a synodal vision,” Archbishop Ignace Bessi... Read more

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Pope Francis greets Sister Simona Brambilla, superior general of the Consolata Missionary Sisters, on June 5, 2017 in Clementine Hall at the Vatican.

Pope Francis appoints first-ever woman to head Vatican dicastery

Cardinal Robert McElroy addresses the congregation at Rome’s Church of San Frumenzio ai Prati Fiscali during his formal installation as its titular cardinal on April 23, 2023.

Pope Francis names Cardinal Robert McElroy to lead Washington, D.C., Archdiocese

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St. André Bessette (1845–1937) was a brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross, which oversees the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Known as a healer with a great devotion to St. Joseph, he led the effort to build Montreal’s famous Oratory of St. Joseph.

St. André Bessette: First Canadian-born saint was a healer who loved St. Joseph

The SEEK conference, held at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City from Jan. 1-5, 2025. is more like a family reunion than a retreat, attendees observed.

‘A great witness:’ SEEK25 wraps up in Salt Lake City

American Cardinal James Harvey opened the holy door at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Jan. 5, 2025, completing the opening of all five holy doors in Rome for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee of Hope.

American cardinal opens final Jubilee holy door in Rome

Umbrellas dotted St. Peter’s Square on the rainy Sunday afternoon as Jubilee pilgrims braved the weather to hear Pope Francis give his Angelus message on Jan. 5, 2025.

Pope Francis: Bring hope with a ‘yes to life’ in Jubilee Year

A chalk home blessing from the feast of the Epiphany.

How to bless your home on the feast of Epiphany 2025

Benediction during Eucharistic Adoration at SEEK 25 in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 3, 2025.

‘A little taste of heaven:’ Eucharistic adoration ‘high point’ of SEEK event, attendees say

Pope Francis lays his hands on Renato Tarantelli Baccari — a gesture signifying the conferral of episcopal authority that traces back to apostolic times — at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Jan. 4, 2025.

Pope attends episcopal ordination of Rome’s new auxiliary bishop

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