Planning a Rome Trip? Expect Extra-Large Crowds This Jubilee Year
The Catholic Church’s celebration should attract millions of extra visitors to the Eternal City and beyond. Here’s how to ...
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Celebrating the Jubilee Where the Church Began
JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza ...
It’s a jubilee year in Italy. Cue the crowds.
The Catholic Church’s celebration should attract millions of extra visitors to Rome and beyond. Here’s how to plan around ...
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More Than 500,000 People Pass Through St. Peter’s Holy Door After Christmas Opening
Holy See and Italian authorities are collaborating to welcome an estimated 30 million people expected to come to Rome ...
Can airlines cancel a ‘no-show’ passenger’s return flight?
Simon Calder answers your questions on ‘Holy Year’ Rome, safety in Buenos Aires, passport expiry dates, and what to do when a ...
Pope Francis is introspective and self-critical in his autobiography, at least about his youth
An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that elected ...
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St. Peter’s Holy Door sees more than half million pilgrims in two weeks
More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the first two weeks after ...
Pope asks aide to deliver his annual foreign policy address, tells ambassadors he's battling a cold
Pope Francis told ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on Thursday that he wasn’t up to delivering his annual foreign ...
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, choosing an Italian nun
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office. He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian ...
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For some, the pope's big Holy Year only aggravates housing crisis as overtourism pushes out Romans
For the Vatican, the Holy Year is a centuries-old tradition of the faithful making pilgrimages to Rome every 25 years to visit the tombs of Saints Peter and Paul and receiving indulgences for the ...
Italy’s ‘Robin Hoods’ reveal the dark side of a beautiful country
Controversial protests are spreading across the country.