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The 2025 Jubilee is a jubilee in the Catholic Church being celebrated in the year 2025. It was announced by Pope John Paul II at the end of the Great Jubilee. [1] This jubilee was preceded by the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy of 2015–2016. [2] The papal bull proclaiming the Jubilee is "Spes non confundit" (Latin for "Hope does not disappoint ...
A jubilee is a special year of remission of sins, debts and universal pardon. In Leviticus, a jubilee year is mentioned to occur every 50th year(7x7= Lev 25 v8-NRSV); during which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.
The Jubilee, also known as the Holy Year, has begun with visitors flocking to Rome, the Vatican City and across Italy. Pope Francis kicked off the event while opening the Holy Door of St. Peter's ...
14 August: After more than a year of high-level investigation, the Vatican expels Luis Fernando Figari, the leader of the Peruvian society of apostolic life Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, for financial corruption and for downplaying allegations of sexual and psychological abuse. [2] 24 December: The 2025 Jubilee began. [3] [4]
The Vatican crosses a key milestone Thursday in the runup to its 2025 Jubilee with the promulgation of the official decree establishing the Holy Year. It's a once-every-quarter-century event that ...
Pope Boniface VIII began the tradition of the Holy Year, known as a Jubilee, in 1300 and the Catholic Church has celebrated them every 25 years or so ever since. [1] A major part of the Holy Year for Catholics is a pilgrimage to Rome and the ritual passing over the threshold of the holy door to symbolise the passing into the presence of God.
A call for direct debt cancellation made by the late Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee year in 2000 sparked a campaign that resulted in $130 billion of debt cancellation between 2000 and 2015.
[51] [52] [53] At the end of the synodal assembly, the Pope referred back to the Synod’s ultimate goal: The Lord will guide us and help us to be a more synodal and missionary Church, a Church that adores God and serves the women and men of our time, going forth to bring everyone the consoling joy of the Gospel. [49]