Pope Francis is set to open the Holy Year of the Catholic Church in St Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday evening. The 88-year-old pontiff in a solemn ceremony on Christmas Eve will open the Holy Door ...

Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, launching the Jubilee year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome.

I know that the calendar tells me it’s Feb. 14 … Valentine’s Day. And if, by chance, you happen to be reading this column, it will already be Feb. 15, even though the newspaper indicates at the top of ...

Placide Cappeau took the new song back to his home town of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 1847 ... dates from 1855. “O Holy Night” is one ...

reenacting the gesture he performed at the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica two nights earlier on Christmas Eve. The opening of the Holy Door at the basilica officially kicked of the Jubilee ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional ... the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land, noted the shuttered shops and empty ...

Pope Francis then presided over the Christmas Eve mass in St Peter's ... Over the course of the next few days, Holy Doors will be opened in Rome's three major basilicas and in Catholic churches ...