“For several months now, Rome has been a city under construction. The Italian capital is seriously preparing for the Jubilee 2025 that Pope Francis is due to inaugurate December 24. Over the next 12 months, the Vatican estimates that the city will welcome up to 34 million pilgrims. ”
“It's Thursday (October 12) and the members of the Synod on synodality are visiting – many for the first time – one of the most iconic places of Rome's earliest Christian communities. Some of these synodal "pilgrims"...”
“The Biblicum said a team of historians unearthed never-before-seen documents in its archives shedding light on the Church's efforts to rescue Jews during World War II. The documents were presented during a workshop held at the Museum of the Shoah, part of Rome's main synagogue, September 7. ”
“A man dressed in white hobbled out of a shop next to the Pantheon in the historic center of Rome on the evening of January 11. It was Pope Francis emerging from a record store and getting into his famous little Fiat 500 to return to the Vatican.”