Watch as Pope Francis begins the celebration of Christmas by opening the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, kicking off the 2025 Jubilee Year on Dec. 24. | 🎥 Vatican News Related article: https://tinyurl.com/4ysp58sj | CBCP News

The Jubilee of Hope 2025 has come to an end. It opened on Christmas Eve 2024, when Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, and closed on the Solemnity of the Epiphany with Pope Leo XIV. It was the 27th Ordinary Jubilee in the history of the Catholic Church, and only the second time in history to be opened by one Pope and closed by another, after the Jubilee of 1700. A Holy Year marked by the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV — a unique moment in the life o

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Our correspondent in Mongolia, Franco Piroli, offers a glimpse of the local Catholic community as Pope Francis travels to the Asian nation for a 4-day Apostolic Journey. | Vatican News

At the start of the third day of his papal visit to Iraq, Pope Francis travels to the city of Erbil where he met with the President and the Prime Minister of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Pope's itinerary for Sunday include visits to Mosul and Qaraqosh. Read more at the Vatican News web portal: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-03/pope-francis-iraqi-kurdistan-erbil-apostolic-journey.html | Vatican News