Verdict: Misleading The “ritual” or the opening of the Holy Doors has been done since 1300 A.D. The Holy Door being opened at a Roman prison, though, has not been done before.

VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his ...

While the Holy Doors will be closed on Dec. 28, 2025, the Jubilee year will officially end on Jan. 6, 2026, when Catholics celebrate the feast of the epiphany.

Also, the ritual of opening "Holy Doors," symbolic locations that are opened at the start of the Jubilee, or "Holy Year," has been performed since 1423.

Pope Francis will open five jubilee Holy Doors in the Christmas season between Dec. 24 and Jan. 6. And 38-year-old Immaculate Atieno, a jubilee pilgrim from Nairobi, Kenya, ...

Two more Holy Doors are scheduled to be opened in the coming days: the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Jan. 5 and the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Jan. 1. Reminder from Pope Francis.

The holy doors are normally in Rome where pilgrims get an indulgence for going through them. Trump wants pilgrims to come to his shrine at Mar-a-Lago. “It would be the most beautiful door ever ...

Verdict: Misleading. The “ritual” or the opening of the Holy Doors has been done since 1300 A.D. The Holy Door being opened at a Roman prison, though, has not been done before.