Pope Leo XIV closed the final "Holy Door" in St Peter's Basilica in Rome on Tuesday, the day of Epiphany, signalling the end of the 2025 Jubilee year that drew millions of pilgrims to the city. The ...

In all the papal basilicas, the official document of closing the Holy Door has been deposited along with the key to the door and several pontifical medals from the last sealing. The pope closed the ...

Some of the hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families who joined a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church and crediting Pope Francis for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV closes the Holy Door at St Peter's to end Jubilee year Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday closed out the Vatican's 2025 Holy ...

Natalie Turner and her son Phillip cross the Holy Door in St.Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on the last day of its public opening, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.) Listen ROME ...

Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major, prays in front of the basilica's Holy Door before solemnly closing it Dec. 25, 2025, as the Jubilee Year was ending.

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday closed out the Vatican's 2025 Holy Year by denouncing today's consumerist and anti-foreigner sentiment, capping a Jubilee that saw some 33 million pilgrims flock to Rome and a ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday closed the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, bringing the ordinary Holy Year to an end — a time of grace that invited Catholics to conversion, reconciliation, and hope. The ...