2025 Jubilee

At the close of the 2000 Great Jubilee, Pope John Paul II spoke to the children of the world, noting that the children and young people of that time would be "the leading players at the next Jubilee in 2025".Pope John Paul II, [https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/2001/january/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20010105_bambini.html Address of John Paul II to children from various countries at the closing celebration of the Jubilee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240821204457/https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/2001/january/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20010105_bambini.html |date=21 August 2024 }}, 5 January 2001, accessed 21 January 2024

On 26 December 2021, Pope Francis entrusted the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization with the task of making preparations for the Jubilee, since he considered it fundamental for the strengthening of Catholicism.{{cite web|date=2021-12-26|language=ES|title=Papa confía organización de Jubileo 2025 a Consejo Pontificio para la Nueva Evangelización|url=https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/papa-confia-organizacion-de-jubileo-2025-a-consejo-pontificio-para-la-nueva-evangelizacion-70802|work=Aciprensa|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126121420/https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/papa-confia-organizacion-de-jubileo-2025-a-consejo-pontificio-para-la-nueva-evangelizacion-70802|url-status=live}}

On 3 January 2022, at a meeting held in Rome, it was determined that the motto of the event would be "Pilgrims of Hope".{{cite web|date=2022-01-13|language=ES|title=Fisichella: El lema del Jubileo 2025 es 'peregrinos de la esperanza'|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/es/vaticano/news/2022-01/fisichella-el-lema-del-jubileo-2025-peregrinos-de-la-esperanza.html|work=Vatican News}} On 22 February the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization called a competition to design the official logo of the 2025 Jubilee, with the main prompt being that the participants base their submissions on the motto. The Pontifical Council would choose the design which communicated the message the best. The competition was open until 20 May,{{cite web|access-date=2024-01-18|date=2022-02-22|language=ES|title=Concurso para diseño del nuevo logotipo del Jubileo 2025|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/es/vaticano/news/2022-02/concurso-para-el-logotipo-oficial-del-jubileo-ordinario-2025.html|work=vaticannews.va|archive-date=18 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118230845/https://www.vaticannews.va/es/vaticano/news/2022-02/concurso-para-el-logotipo-oficial-del-jubileo-ordinario-2025.html|url-status=live}} and at the end of June 2022, the official logo was presented.{{cite web|access-date=2024-01-18|publisher=Agencia Informativa Católica Argentina|title='Peregrinos de la esperanza', presentan el Logo del Jubileo de 2025|url=https://aica.org/noticia-peregrinos-de-la-esperanza-presentan-el-logo-del-jubileo-de-2025|lang=es|website=aica.org|archive-date=29 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240929014350/https://aica.org/noticia-peregrinos-de-la-esperanza-presentan-el-logo-del-jubileo-de-2025|url-status=live}}

The papal bull of convocation,{{Cite web|url=https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/giubileo-2025/bolla.html|title=La Bula|access-date=2024-04-23|last=|website=Jubilaeum 2025|archive-date=5 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250105234422/https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/giubileo-2025/bolla.html|url-status=live}} named {{lang|la|Spes non confundit}}, took place 9 May 2024, coinciding with the Solemnity of the Ascension. It explains the necessary indications for the celebration of the Jubilee, in which several points were highlighted, among which the following stand out:{{cite news|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-05/pope-proclaims-jubilee-may-hope-fill-our-days.html|title=Pope proclaims Jubilee: 'May hope fill our days!'|publisher=Vatican News|language=EN|date=May 9, 2024|access-date=May 9, 2024}}

• A word of hope
• A path of hope
• Signs of hope
• Appeals to hope
• Anchored in hope{{cite web|url=https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/104354/texto-completo-spes-non-confundit-la-bula-del-jubileo-2025|title=Texto completo: Spes non confundit, la bula que convoca el Jubileo Ordinario de la Esperanza|publisher=Aciprensa|language=es|date=May 9, 2024|archive-date=14 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241114145123/https://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/104354/texto-completo-spes-non-confundit-la-bula-del-jubileo-2025|url-status=live}}

On 28 October, the Vatican launched an anime-influenced mascot named "Luce" (Italian for "light") for the 2025 Jubilee, intending to engage a younger audience.{{Cite web |last=Mares |first=Courtney |date=2024-10-28 |title=Meet 'Luce': The Vatican's cartoon mascot for Jubilee 2025 |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260129/meet-luce-the-vatican-s-cartoon-mascot-for-jubilee-2025 |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Catholic News Agency |language=en}}

The logo depicts four people in “pilgrims' capes” following the Cross. They represent all humanity arriving from the four cardinal points. The figures embrace to represent the fraternity of all humanity. The Cross is held by the first person and represents the clinging to hope and faith. The people stand on waves representing that the pilgrimage of life is not always smooth. The group of pilgrims also represents that the pilgrimage that is life is communal.

{{main|List of 2025 Jubilee churches}}

Opening and closing of the Holy Doors of the four major papal basilicas in Rome, normally sealed with mortar and cement, signal the beginning and end of the jubilee:

A fifth door, located at the Roman prison in Rebibbia, was opened on 26 December 2024. The act is intended to serve as a symbol "inviting all prisoners to look to the future with hope and a renewed sense of confidence". This was the first time a prison door has been opened to mark the commencement of a jubilee.{{cite news|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-12/pope-opening-holy-door-in-prison-a-message-of-hope-to-prisoners.html|title=Pope to open Holy Door in a prison: a message of hope to prisoners|work=Vatican News|first=Lisa|last=Zengarini|date=24 December 2024|access-date=24 December 2024}}

On 9 January 2025, archbishop Santo Marcianò of the Military Ordinariate of Italy designated Italian naval ship Amerigo Vespucci as a 2025 Jubilee church and site “for sacred pilgrimages and for pious visits among its missions at sea.”{{cite web|last=Pollio Fenton|first=Francesca|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261537/chapel-on-historic-italian-naval-ship-chosen-to-be-a-jubilee-church-in-2025|title=Historic Italian naval ship chosen to be a jubilee church in 2025|website=catholicnewsagency.com|publisher=Catholic News Agency (CNA)|date=13 January 2025|access-date=25 January 2025|archive-date=19 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250119022816/https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261537/chapel-on-historic-italian-naval-ship-chosen-to-be-a-jubilee-church-in-2025|url-status=live}}

The jubilee began on Christmas Eve (24 December) 2024, with Francis knocking on the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican from his wheelchair. The door was swung open and Francis rolled through the doorway as the basilica's Christmas Eve Mass began.{{cite news|url=https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/the-pope-is-kicking-off-a-yearlong-jubilee-that-19999822.php|title=Pope Francis kicks off a yearlong Jubilee that will test his stamina and Rome's patience|first=Nicole|last=Winfield|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |agency=Associated Press|via=Seattle PI|date=24 December 2024|access-date=24 December 2024|archive-date=30 December 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241230075556/https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/the-pope-is-kicking-off-a-yearlong-jubilee-that-19999822.php|url-status=live}}

During the first two weeks of the jubilee, more than 545,000 pilgrims passed through the Holy Door of the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.{{cite web|url=https://ika.hkm.hr/papa-franjo/vise-od-pola-milijuna-hodocasnika-proslo-kroz-sveta-vrata-u-vatikanu/|language=hr|title=Više od pola milijuna hodočasnika prošlo kroz Sveta vrata u Vatikanu|trans-title=More than half a million pilgrims passed through the Holy Door at the Vatican|website=ika.hkm.hr|publisher=Informativna katolička agencija|date=8 January 2025}} In the first month of the jubilee, this number exceeded 1.3 million pilgrims.{{cite web|url=https://zenit.org/2025/02/08/1-3-million-pilgrims-have-already-passed-through-the-holy-door-of-st-peters-in-the-first-weeks-of-the-jubilee/|title=1.3 million pilgrims have already passed through the Holy Door of St. Peter's in the first weeks of the Jubilee|website=zenit.org|date=8 February 2025|access-date=16 February 2025|archive-date=14 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250214082638/https://zenit.org/2025/02/08/1-3-million-pilgrims-have-already-passed-through-the-holy-door-of-st-peters-in-the-first-weeks-of-the-jubilee/|url-status=live}} More than 30 million pilgrims are expected to pass through during the year, according to the organisers of the jubilee, the Dicastery for Evangelisation.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-24 |title=Jubilee 2025: Rome expects over 30 million pilgrims during Holy Year |url=https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/12/24/jubilee-2025-rome-expects-more-than-30-million-pilgrims-during-holy-year |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=euronews |language=en |archive-date=5 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250105032530/https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/12/24/jubilee-2025-rome-expects-more-than-30-million-pilgrims-during-holy-year |url-status=live }}

The year includes a number of subsidiary thematic jubilees: for example, the Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture was held between 15 and 18 February,{{cite web|url=https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/pellegrinaggio/calendario-giubileo/GrandiEventi/Giubileo-degli-Artisti.html|website=iubilaeum2025.va|title=Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture|access-date=16 February 2025|archive-date=23 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250223123145/https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/pellegrinaggio/calendario-giubileo/GrandiEventi/Giubileo-degli-Artisti.html|url-status=live}} the Jubilee of the Missionaries of Mercy is from 28 to 30 March,Holy See, [https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/notizie/comunicati/2025/giubileo-missionari-misericordia.html The Jubilee of the Missionaries of Mercy in Rome from March 28th to 30th], accessed on 29 March 2025 and the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly takes place from 30 May to 1 June.Holy See, [https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/pellegrinaggio/calendario-giubileo/GrandiEventi/Giubileo-delle-Famiglie-dei-Nonni-degli-Anziani.html Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly], accessed on 29 March 2025 During the Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture, among others, producer Tim Burton, actress Monica Bellucci, designer Dante Ferretti, scenarist Abel Ferrara, writers Nadia Terranova and Luca Doninelli, and singers Gigi D'Alessio and Enrico Ruggeri registered for participation.{{cite web|url=https://english.katholisch.de/artikel/59500-tim-burton-and-monica-bellucci-celebrities-at-the-holy-year-event|title=Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci: Celebrities at the Holy Year event|website=english.katholisch.de|date=13 February 2025|access-date=16 February 2025|archive-date=30 March 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250330144352/https://english.katholisch.de/artikel/59500-tim-burton-and-monica-bellucci-celebrities-at-the-holy-year-event|url-status=live}} It started with a general audience in St. Peter's Square, following international meeting "Sharing Hope – Horizons of Cultural Heritage" in Vatican Museums. The next day was opening of the Window Gallery - Conciliazione 5, located in Via della Conciliazione, and presentation of the "Yan Pei-Ming" project by Roman prisoners.

The 2025 Jubilee was briefly interrupted following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday. This will mark the first time a pope will have opened the holy door of St. Peter's, but not live to close the holy door at the end of the jubilee; his successor, Pope Leo XIV, is expected to close the door when the jubilee ends.

• 2024
• 24 December: Opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica
• 26 December: Opening of Holy Door at Rebibbia Prison
• 29 December: Opening of Holy Door at St John Lateran's

• 2025
• 1 January: Opening of Holy Door at St Mary Major's
• 5 January: Opening of Holy Door at St Paul's outside the Walls
• 24–26 January: Jubilee of the World of Communications
• 8–9 February: Jubilee of the Armed Forces, Police and Security Personnel
• 15–18 February: Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture
• 21–23 February: Jubilee of Deacons
• 8–9 March: Jubilee of the World of Volunteering
• 28 March: 24 Hours for the Lord
• 28–30 March: Jubilee of Priests Instituted as "Missionaries of Mercy"
• 5–6 April: Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers
• 13 April: Palm Sunday
• 20 April: Easter Sunday

• 2025
• 21–26 April: Death and funeral of Pope Francis
• 25–27 April: Jubilee of Teenagers
• 28–29 April: Jubilee of People with Disabilities
• 1–4 May: Jubilee of Workers
• 4–5 May: Jubilee of Entrepreneurs
• 7–8 May: 2025 papal conclave

• 2025
• 10–11 May: Jubilee of Bands and Popular Entertainment
• 12–14 May: Jubilee of the Eastern Churches
• 16–18 May: Jubilee of Confraternities
• 18 May: Papal inauguration of Pope Leo XIV
• 30 May–1 June: Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly
• 7–8 June: Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations and New Communities
• 9 June: Jubilee of the Holy See
• 14–15 June: Jubilee of Sport
• 20–22 June: Jubilee of Governments
• 23–24 June: Jubilee of Seminarians
• 25 June: Jubilee of Bishops
• 25–27 June: Jubilee of Priests
• 28 July–3 August: Jubilee of Youth
• 28-29 July: Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers
• 15 September: Jubilee of Consolation
• 20 September: Jubilee of Justice
• 26–28 September: Jubilee of Catechists
• 4–5 October: Jubilee of the Missions
• 4–5 October: Jubilee of Migrants
• 8–9 October: Jubilee of Consecrated Life
• 11–12 October: Jubilee of Marian Spirituality
• 27 October–2 November: Jubilee of the World of Education
• 16 November: Jubilee of the Poor
• 22–23 November: Jubilee of Choirs
• 14 December: Jubilee of Prisoners

• Mass for the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis (originally scheduled on 27 April but was postponed indefinitely due to death of Pope Francis on 21 April){{cite web|url=https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/pellegrinaggio/calendario-giubileo.html|website=iubilaeum2025.va|title=Calendar of Major Events|access-date=21 April 2025|archive-date=18 April 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250418232713/https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/pellegrinaggio/calendario-giubileo.html|url-status=live}}

In December 2024, various viral posts on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook claimed falsely that the pope would be opening "spiritual portals" or "sacred portals"{{efn|The Latin word for door is "porta"}} in a "never-before-performed" ritual. Some posts also claimed falsely that the ritual included opening a "tomb of Lucifer" under the Vatican.{{cite news |last1=Kile |first1=Meredith |title=Is the Pope Actually Opening 5 Portals to Other Worlds on Christmas Eve? |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/pope-opening-5-portals-christmas-eve/ |work=VICE |date=23 December 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Trela |first1=Nate |title=No, the pope isn't opening five portals to other worlds on Christmas Eve {{!}} Fact check |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/12/20/pope-portals-holy-doors-fact-check/77105694007/ |access-date=24 December 2024 |work=USA TODAY |date=20 December 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Esposito |first1=Joey |title=No, Pope Francis Isn't Opening 'Tomb of Lucifer' in Vatican on Christmas Eve |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pope-francis-tomb-of-lucifer-open-christmas-eve/ |website=Snopes |access-date=24 December 2024 |language=en |date=21 December 2024}} The claim of a new ritual appeared to stem from a New York Post article with a misleading title referring to the opening of the additional Rebibbia prison door. It is unclear where the Tomb of Lucifer claim originated; however, Bible scholar Daniel McClellan suggested that a tomb in the Vatican Necropolis labeled as the "Tomb of Lucifer" may have begun the rumor, and explained that in pre-Constantinian times when the tomb was constructed the name Lucifer did not have Satanic connotations, with contemporary Christians even having Lucifer as their personal name.

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