Key Highlights
- Pope Leo XIV closed the Catholic Church's Holy Year on Tuesday by urging Christians around the world to help people in need and treat foreigners with kindness.
- Leo, who has repeatedly stressed the importance of caring for immigrants during his papacy thus far, said at a Vatican ceremony that the record 33.5 million pilgrims who visited Rome during the Holy Year should have learned not to treat people as mere "products.""Around us, a distorted economy tries to profit from everything," Leo said.
- "After this year, will we be better able to recognize a pilgrim in the visitor, a seeker in the stranger, a neighbor in the foreigner?" US CATHOLIC BISHOPS PRESIDENT SAYS DEPORTATIONS INSTILLING 'FEAR' IN 'WIDESPREAD MANNER': 'CONCERNS US ALL' Pope Leo XIV closed the Catholic Church's Holy Year by urging Christians around the world to help people in need and treat foreigners with kindness.
- (David Ramos/) Holy years, or jubilees, typically happen every 25 years, considered to be a time of peace, forgiveness and pardon.
- Pilgrims to Rome can enter special "Holy Doors" at four Rome basilicas and attend papal audiences throughout the year.
