Pilgrims who visit Rome during the Jubilee, a holy year celebrated every 25 years, will have the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence by passing through the doors.

The holy door at Saint Paul's Outside the Walls was opened on Sunday by the Rome basilica's archpriest, Cardinal James Michael Harvey. It is the fifth and final holy door to be opened in the Italian ...

The holy door at the Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls was opened on Sunday as part of events to mark the start of the ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

"I therefore encourage the rulers of countries with a Christian tradition to set a good example by cancelling or reducing as much as possible the debts of the poorest countries," said Pope Francis.

Pope Francis is bringing his Holy Year to Rome's main prison. Francis traveled to Rebibbia prison Thursday on a frigid ...

The symbolic act of opening Holy Doors for the Church’s Jubilee Year was drastically misrepresented by some online.

Catholics will be able to obtain the indulgence on pilgrimages to any holy place of the jubilee, those churches designated ...

Former centre-right Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno has been detained in Rome after his probation term was revoked when he failed ...

At least 20 people missing after migrant shipwreck off Lampedusa island, over 300 people injured in New Year’s Eve fireworks ...

Gianni Alemanno, former mayor of Rome, was arrested on New Year's Eve for a dispute related to the performance of the social ...

Alemanno was reached by a provision of revocation of social services that the Surveillance Court had granted him ...