Vatican: More than 15 million pilgrims have crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica during the first nine months of the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Those numbers were released on Wednesday by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization. Fr. Eugene Sylva ofContinue Reading
Los Angeles: When a juvenile inmate in a California prison wrote to Pope Francis, he did not expect a response. But he received one, in the form a Jan. 21 letter from the Holy Father, inviting him to take advantage of the Holy Year of Mercy. “Know that the HolyContinue Reading
Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his Catholic Church. Francis stood in prayer on the threshold of the basilica’s Holy Door then walked through it, the first of anContinue Reading