In his message for the 2025 World Day of the Sick — signed Jan. 14 at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran — the pontiff pointed to presence, gift, and sharing as profound paths of ...

Pilgrims from Iceland outside of St. John Lateran. (Photo: Mateusz Opila/Mateusz Pasikowski) Sister Anna Mirijam Kaschner from Denmark, who is also the Nordic bishops’ conference general ...

Canadian Catholic travel agencies know Jubilee 2025 is momentous and are adjusting pilgrimage slates for the year accordingly.

Plenipotentiaries for both sides met at a table in the historic St. John Lateran palace and signed the agreement ending the dispute that had lasted since 1870. Benito Mussolini premier of Italy ...

The Vatican has sought to engage young people in the 2025 Jubilee pilgrimage with the introduction of Luce, an anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee.

A fresco in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, depicting Pope Boniface VIII proclaiming the Jubilee in 1300. Sailko/Wikimedia Commons , CC BY Often misunderstood, an indulgence is distinct from ...

Pope Francis emphasized how suffering can become “an occasion for a transformative encounter” with God in a new message released Jan. 27 describing three distinct ways the divine draws close to those ...

standing as it did between the Basilicas of St. Mary Major and St. John Lateran. The Holy Father at once took a piece of paper and wrote a short memorandum ordering the Augustinian Fathers of St ...

St. John Lateran in Rome is revered as the oldest and one of the most significant basilicas in the Christian world, having been consecrated in 324 AD. As the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, it has ...

Megan O’Connell, an eighth grader at St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Academy in Maspeth, does not plan to travel to Rome for ...