At the start of Christmas Eve Mass, Francis will push open the Holy ... allow the estimated 32 million pilgrims projected to visit Rome to pass through. The first Holy Year was called in 1300 ...

Rome facelift - Some 700 security officers ... Pope Francis then presided over the Christmas Eve mass in St Peter's, where he turned once again to the victims of war. "We think of wars, of machine ...

[AFP] Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday ... a Holy Door at Rebibbia prison in Rome and preside over a mass in a show of support for the ...

Taking place every 25 years, a Jubilee year starts on Christmas Eve and ends on the Holy Epiphany feast day (January 6, 2026) when the Holy Door is closed again. Until then, Rome will be flooded ...