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By ITV staff“Watching people from all over the world praying... it’s an experience of the universal Church. For me, it reinforces my faith,” Joan Lewis, author of A Holy Year in Rome: The Complete Pilgrim’s Guide for the Jubilee of Mercy, held in 2016, told Catholic News Agency in a 2023 interview.The Jubilee Year called

ROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis led his "School of Prayer" outside on a concrete driveway leading to a series of parking garages under a 30-family condominium on the outskirts of Rome. "The church begins to take shape in the community, seeking together, listening to the word of God, speaking well of each other," he told about 60 residents of the apartment building: children, teenagers, adults and older people. A group of women from Senegal, an Orthodox man and the district preside...

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As young delegates and the coordinators of youth and young adult ministry from the worlds bishops conferences gathered near Rome, an archbishop asked them: "How can we be a church that young people come back to, not a church they leave? How can our young people find hope and courage in the church and transform their lives?"The questions were posed by Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick of Seoul, South Korea, host of World Youth Day 2027, during the Vatican-sponsored...

Pope Francis visits some 80 boys and girls of a Rome parish who are preparing to celebrate the Jubilee Year

The theme for the gathering in Ciampino, south of Rome, was Synodal Youth Ministry: New Leadership Styles and Strategies

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican is expecting some 70,000 children between the ages of 5 and 12 and their chaperones to fill Rome's Olympic Stadium for the opening events of the first World Children's Day May 25 and to join Pope Francis for Mass in St. Peter's Square the next morning. Franciscan Father Enzo Fortunato, coordinator of the event, told reporters May 16 that, given school schedules and travel logistics, only about 10% of the participants will be children from outside ...

The pope also applauded a decision to expand the number of catacomb sites that are accessible to visitors

The Vatican did not confirm the trip announced by Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople on May 15