Holy Week is a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of events. But as Francis continues to recover ...

Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, launching the Jubilee year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome.

Later Tuesday, Pope Francis will preside over the traditional Christmas Eve mass at St Peter's Square. On Wednesday, he will deliver his traditional Christmas Day blessing, Urbi et Orbi (to the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas ... which he opened on Christmas Eve to launch the 2025 Jubilee, as representing God’s mercy, which “unties every knot; it ...

A convalescing Pope Francis made a surprise in-person ... work on the basilica's masterpieces. On Saturday, the eve of Holy Week, Francis went to the St. Mary Major Basilica in central Rome ...

Rome: Pope Francis told Vatican bureaucrats on Saturday ... strenuous because of the start of the Vatican's Holy Year on Christmas Eve.

The pope marked Christmas Eve on Tuesday with the traditional Mass in St Peter's Basilica. Francis urged the faithful to bring hope as "pilgrims of light into the darkness of the world." ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis called for a ceasefire on all ... is due to inaugurate his big Holy Year and preside over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day celebrations in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Francis arrived ... The Corsica visit will be Francis's final trip abroad this year, with many duties awaiting him on his return to Rome as the Christmas season moves to its climax.