900M to 950M Crossed a Holy Door This Year

Jubilees and Special Years

Pope Makes Surprise Visits to Neonatal Unit, Hospice

“With this “Friday of Mercy”, the Holy Father wanted to give a strong sign of the importance of life, from its first instant to its natural end”

Sep 19, 2016 17:37

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

Pope Makes Surprise Visit to Program for Women Saved From Prostitution

For ‘Friday of Mercy,’ Hears Testimonies From 20 Women of John XXIII Community

Aug 12, 2016 19:19

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

Jubilee of Mercy to Be Celebrated in the Americas With Continent-Wide Conference

Rich program includes initiatives of mercy as well as saints of mercy

Aug 11, 2016 19:30

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

Message From Justice and Peace Council on Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing

“This Jubilee gives each and every one of us the opportunity to revisit the sinful and sorrowful moments of our lives, not in order to be crushed and to despair, but in order to allow God’s loving grace to enter with forgiveness and healing”

Aug 08, 2016 17:50

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

Africa to Be Consecrated to Divine Mercy This September

Papal envoy to attend continental congress, which will conclude with consecration

Jul 12, 2016 17:59

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years•Pope and Holy See

Pope Decries ‘Shutting Eyes’ to Sick, Disabled

At Jubilee Mass, Criticizes That in an Age When Care for One’s Body ‘Has Become Obsession and a Big Business, Anything Imperfect Has to Be Hidden Away’

Jun 12, 2016 17:03

Deborah Castellano Lubov

Jubilees and Special Years•Papal Texts

Pope’s Homily at Jubilee for Sick, Disabled

‘What an illusion it is when people today shut their eyes in the face of sickness and disability! They fail to understand the real meaning of life…’

Jun 12, 2016 11:03

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

4 Lessons on Divine Mercy From the Woman at the Well

From a presentation to priests at the Jubilee in Rome

Jun 10, 2016 14:39

Bishop Robert Barron

Jubilees and Special Years•Papal Texts

‘Don’t Be Accountants of the Spirit,’ Pope Tells Priests

During Mass for Sacred Heart of Jesus, Francis Tells Clergy to Dirty Hands, Forget Timetables, Don’t Think of ‘Overtime’

Jun 03, 2016 20:00

Deborah Castellano Lubov

Jubilees and Special Years•Papal Texts

Pope’s Homily at Mass for Sacred Heart of Jesus, Jubilee for Priests

‘A shepherd does not live by calculating his gains or how long he has worked: he is not an accountant of the Spirit, but a Good Samaritan who seeks out those in need. ‘

Jun 03, 2016 19:46

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years•Papal Texts•Pope and Holy See

‘Many of the Great Saints Were Great Sinners,’ Pope Reminds Priests

During 2nd Meditation, Also Explains How Mary ‘Brings Good Out of All That People Lay at Her Feet”

Jun 02, 2016 18:01

Deborah Castellano Lubov

Jubilees and Special Years•Pope and Holy See

‘Infinite Mercy Is Needed to Remedy All Evil, Suffering,’ Pope Tells Priests at St. John Lateran

During 1st Meditation During Jubilee for Priests, Francis Urges Clergy to Let Mercy Define Their Lives

Jun 02, 2016 18:00

Deborah Castellano Lubov

Jubilees and Special Years•Papal Texts•Pope and Holy See

Pope’s 3rd Meditation at Jubilee for Priests: ‘The Good Odor of Christ and the Light of His Mercy’

‘Now we have to “act”, not only with gestures, but by projects and structures, by creating a culture of mercy. Once we begin, we sense immediately that the Spirit energizes and sustains these works.’

Jun 02, 2016 16:42

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years•Papal Texts•Pope and Holy See

Pope’s 2nd Meditation at Jubilee for Priests: ‘The Vessel of Mercy’

‘Mary gazes ‘by weaving,’ by finding a way to bring good out of all the things that her people lay at her feet.’

Jun 02, 2016 14:17

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years•Papal Texts•Pope and Holy See

Pope’s 1st Meditation at Jubilee for Priests: ‘From Estrangement to Celebration’

‘In our serene prayer, which wavers between embarrassment and dignity, dignity and embarrassment, let us ask for the grace to sense that mercy as giving meaning to our entire life, the grace to feel how the heart of the Father beats as one with our own.’

Jun 02, 2016 13:02

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years•Papal Texts

Pope’s Homily at Jubilee for Deacons

‘Available in life, meek of heart and in constant dialogue with Jesus, you will not be afraid to be servants of Christ, and to encounter and caress the flesh of the Lord in the poor of our time’

May 29, 2016 11:02

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

A Tale of Mercy in a Rwanda Still Haunted by Genocide

By Aleksandra Szymczak In just 100 days, 16 years ago, 800,000 people were murdered in the Rwandan genocide. In this Year of Mercy, a Polish missionary who has spent the past 30 years in the country is working hard to plan this […]

May 19, 2016 17:07

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

‘The Pope Heard My Confession’

“I could tell that it was my heavenly Father that was speaking to me through a person”

May 03, 2016 18:23

Rocío Lancho García

Jubilees and Special Years

Homeless to Have Their Own Jubilee Celebration

Will be one of the last events of Year of Mercy

May 02, 2016 18:57

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

Nuncio to Ireland Will Open Holy Door at ‘St. Patrick’s Purgatory’

Lough Derg pilgrimage site where pilgrims walk barefoot through ‘stations’ has been attracting faithful since 7th century

Apr 29, 2016 17:06

ZENIT Staff

Jubilees and Special Years

‘Click to Pray:’ An ‘App’ to Pray With Pope Francis

And to Be Closer to the Heart of Jesus

Mar 07, 2016 10:55

Anita Bourdin

Jubilees and Special Years

Missionaries of Mercy: The Church’s Maternal Face

Three Priests Selected for the Pope’s Special Group of Confessors Reflect on Their Mission

Feb 23, 2016 15:05

Rocío Lancho García

Jubilees and Special Years

Archbishop Fisichella Speaks of Padre Pio Relics, Missionaries of Mercy Mandate

Also Reminds Journalists That 1st Saturday Jubilee Audience Is Tomorrow

Jan 29, 2016 13:14

Deborah Castellano Lubov