Pope Francis is formally inaugurating the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome, amid new security fears following a Christmas market attack in Germany.
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FILE - In this April 2, 2015 pool photo Pope Francis, center, holds the pastoral staff as he arrives for a Holy Thursday homily in the Rebibbia prison chapel in Rome. FILE - General view of the construction site of a major underground hub in central Piazza Venezia in Rome, Thursday, May 9, 2024. FILE - Pope John Paul II walks through the bronze Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, late Friday night, Dec. 24, 1999.
FILE - In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, people walk through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. FILE - Nuns reach out to touch the the Holy Door of the St. John in Lateran basilica in Rome, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016. , reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome, amid new security fears following a Christmas market attack in Germany.
— Abstain, in a spirit of penance, for at least one day of the week from “futile distractions,” such as social media, or from “superfluous consumption," such as fasting; or donating the proportionate sum to the poor or to help migrants.In fact, the only other Holy Door that Francis will personally open this year is located at the chapel of Rome’s Rebibbia prison, to draw attention to the need to give prisoners in particular hope of a better future.
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