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Pope Francis opens the Holy Door in L'Aquila, Italy on Aug. 28, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Aug 28, 2022 / 04:15 am (CNA). Pope Francis became the first pope in 728 years to open the Holy Door of a 13th-century basilica in L’Aquila, Italy on Sunday. During a visit to the Italian city located about 70 miles northeast of Rome on Aug. 28, the pope participated in a centuries-old tradition, the Celestinian Forgiveness, known in Italian as the Perdonanza Celestiniana. The opening of the Holy Door marked a key moment in the annual celebration established by Pope Celestine ...

Pope Francis became the first pope in 728 years to open the Holy Door of a 13th-century basilica in L’Aquila, Italy, on Sunday. During a visit to the Ital

Pope Francis opens the Holy Door in L'Aquila, Italy on Aug. 28, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Aug 28, 2022 / 04:15 am (CNA).Pope Francis became the first pope in 728 years to open the Holy Door of a 13th-century basilica in L'Aquila, Italy on Sunday.During a visit to the Italian city located about 70 miles northeast of Rome on Aug. 28, the pope participated in a centuries-old tradition, the Celestinian Forgiveness, known in Italian as the Perdonanza Celestiniana.The opening of the Holy Door marked a key moment in the annual celebration established by Pope Celestine V in 1294.&qu...

(CAN) -- Peter of Morrone was an unusual choice for pope. He was not a cardinal, for one, but a Benedictine monk and hermit living in a remote mountainous cave. He was also around 80 years of age. But the Church's 11 living cardinals had spent more than two years in a stalemate over the new pope's election. So when the saintly Peter delivered to the cardinals the message that God would punish them for any further delays -- his name was put forward, and soon after, on July 5, 1294, a cons

A consistory for the creation of new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica Nov. 28, 2020. / Vatican Media.Rome Newsroom, Aug 17, 2022 / 05:31 am (CNA).On Saturday, Aug. 27, Pope Francis will place a red biretta on the heads of 18 bishops and two priests, declaring them to be cardinals "to the glory of almighty God and the honor of the Apostolic See."Here's what you need to know:What is a consistory?A consistory is a formal meeting of the College of Cardinals. The pope can convene them for several different reasons.One of the most common reasons for a consistory is to create new cardinals...