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Francis, celebrating the 12th Christmas of his pontificate, presided at a solemn Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and opened the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, which the Vatican expects will ...
Pope Francis's weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday was briefly interrupted by two women from an animal rights group, who shouted and held up signs against bullfighting. The women ...
A planned public papal audience set for Saturday had been cancelled "due to the health condition of the Holy Father", the Vatican said in Vatican cancels pope's weekend engagements as he battles ...
Also the octave day of Christmas, and civil New Year’s Day. 6 January: Epiphany: Epifania del Signore: 11 February: Lateran Treaty Day: Anniversario della istituzione dello Stato della Città del Vaticano: Commemorates the 1929 signing of the Lateran Treaty, which established Vatican City as a sovereign state. 13 March: Anniversary of the ...
The tradition of placing a Christmas tree as well as the life-size Nativity scene in Saint Peter's Square started in 1982 during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, [1] when the Polish-born Pope introduced the northern European symbol of Christmas spirit. [2] The tradition of erecting a Christmas Tree was celebrated in northern and central ...
The pope, 82, and Redford, 83, clasped hands as Redford said, "Holy Father, my name is Robert Redford and I want to thank you for all you've done for the environment." "God bless you," Pope ...
Pope Benedict XVI photographed during a Papal Mass celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica in 2013. A Papal Mass is the Solemn Pontifical High Mass celebrated by the Pope.It is celebrated on such occasions as a papal coronation, an ex cathedra pronouncement, the canonization of a saint, on Easter or Christmas or other major feast days.
Pope Francis has previously called the public to support a ceasefire between Palestine and Israel as well as the safe release of hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attacks.