The Jubilee of Hope 2025 has come to an end. It opened on Christmas Eve 2024, when Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, and closed on the Solemnity of the Epiphany with Pope Leo XIV. It was the 27th Ordinary Jubilee in the history of the Catholic Church, and only the second time in history to be opened by one Pope and closed by another, after the Jubilee of 1700. A Holy Year marked by the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV — a unique moment in the life o

Pope Leo XIV led a procession through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s today, carrying the pilgrim cross, as part of the Jubilee for the Holy See. | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops