As we prepare to experience and celebrate the Jubilee Year 2025, Vatican Media presents a 16-episode podcast series titled “From Tourist to Pilgrim” featuring art historian Liz Lev, who sheds light the hidden beauty of Rome through the prism of pilgrimage. By Linda Bordoni “From Tourist to Pilgrim” is a Vatican Media podcast series featuring…
Vatican news Familiar names such as Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Conan O'Brian, Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg will be among the comedians Pope Francis will meet on Friday, June 14, as he hosts a group of comedians and artists from international comics at the Vatican. Deborah Castellano Lubov Pope Francis will meet famous comedians at…
Around twenty theologians from around the world arrived in Rome to begin work on the Instrumentum laboris for the second session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. By Vatican News With the document Around October 2024 sent last December to all the bishops of the world, the General Secretariat of…
Members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See attended an exclusive screening of Mstyslav Chernov's Oscar-winning film “20 Days in Mariupol” on May 29, 2024. The event was organized by the embassies of the United Kingdom and Ukraine to the Holy See. By Vatican News “It takes courage to tell the truth, and…
The Holy See receives a positive assessment in the first “Regular Monitoring Report” of the MONEYVAL Committee of the Council of Europe, focused on combating money laundering and terrorist financing. By Vatican News According to a press release from the Holy See Press Office published Tuesday, the first “regular monitoring report” of the MONEYVAL Committee…
On May 29, the Vatican's Casina Pio IV is hosting a World Changers Summit, bringing together international representatives of science, technology and faith to discuss the common good. By Jessica Jeyamaridas The World Changers Summit, entitled “Forum to help shape a better future”, is now in its third edition. The event was conceived by Professor…
Scholas Occurrentes and the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean are organizing the International Meeting of Meaning, bringing together leading researchers and young people to the Vatican, May 21-23, to discuss some of the most important issues of our era. By Lisa Zengarini A host of world-renowned university rectors, renowned academics, cultural figures…
Following the solemn indiction of Jubilee 2025 by Pope Francis last week, the Apostolic Penitentiary has issued a decree which specifies the details of the indulgences that will be granted during the Holy Year. By Christopher Wells The Catholic faithful will have several ways to obtain the jubilee indulgence for the Holy Year 2025, according…
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences hosts a conference focused on the transformative potential of art, which begins with the Pope's call to establish a network of “cities of refuge” and the inauguration of the photo exhibition ” Changes.” By Béatrice Guarrera From the pride of a leader of an indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon…
The second World Meeting on Human Fraternity, entitled #BeHuman, will take place on May 10 and 11 in Rome and Vatican City State and is organized by the Fratelli Tutti Foundation. Around thirty Nobel Peace Prize laureates will participate in the “Peace Round Table” and publish a “Charter of Humanity” on fraternal coexistence in this…