The Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Baldassare Reina, has opened the Holy Door of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, where he will subsequently celebrate Mass. The jubilee event, the second in a Roman ...

The tradition dates back to Pope Martin V, who opened a Holy Door at the Lateran Basilica in Rome for the Extraordinary Jubilee of 1423. The Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica was first utilized ...

Keeping with an ancient tradition, two lambs are blessed on the feast of Saint Agnes at the basilica bearing her name on Via ...

Pope Francis attended the episcopal ordination of Rome’s new auxiliary bishop and vicegerent at the Basilica of St. John Lateran Saturday afternoon. Monsignor Renato Tarantelli Baccari ...

Pope Francis attends a Mass in which Monsignor Renato Tarantelli Baccari, laying on a carpet, was ordained Bishop, in Rome's St. John at the Lateran Basilica, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.

Just two weeks after the solemn opening of the Jubilee 2025 on Christmas Eve, already more than half a million pilgrims from all over ...