The Diocese of Buffalo has begun both Jubilee 2025 and a Year of Healing. This will be a year marked with prayer, pilgrimage and celebration. Catholic Diocese of Buffalo Sound Hub · December 30, 2024 – Diocese celebrates Mass to mark Jubilee 2025 and Year of Healing A jubilee year, also known as a “holy […]
Bishop Michael W. Fisher invites all to take part in an inaugural Mass to begin Jubilee 2025, a time for prayer, pilgrimage, celebration and faith, taking place Sunday, Dec. 29, at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph Cathedral in downtown Buffalo. Pilgrims are asked to gather at Cathedral Park to begin a procession into the cathedral. […]
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Christmas Eve, officially launching the Jubilee Year 2025. “O Christ, bright star of the morning, incarnation of infinite love, long-awaited salvation, sole hope of the world, illumine our hearts with your radiant splendor,” the pope prayed on Dec. 24 […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a fixed percentage of arms spending to a global fund to fight hunger and climate change, and to cancel the international debt of developing nations as concrete ways to usher in a new era of hope. “Sporadic […]
Bishop Michael W. Fisher announces the upcoming Jubilee year in the Catholic Churches and declares a Year of Healing in the Diocese of Buffalo.