On May 9, Pope Francis issued a papal bull proclaiming the 2025 Jubilee Year. The document, resembling a social encyclical, urges nations to grant amnesty to prisoners and calls on the world’s most powerful entities to forgive the debts of poor countries. Can Pope Francis’ calls match the impact of John Paul II’s in the Jubilee of 2000?
Later, Colleen shares her review of reports from a global synod meeting of 200 parish priests, held just outside Rome, and suggests that this meeting gave rise to a collective vision for a “synodal parish”.
Links from the show
- Hope is the central message of Pope Francis’ decree for Jubilee Year 2025 by Gerard O’Connell
- How to receive an indulgence during the 2025 Jubilee year by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
- Explainer: What exactly is a papal bull? by James T. Keane
- Parish priests had a synod meeting with the Vatican. But will they be included in October’s assembly? by Colleen Dulle
- Why supernatural apparitions are a mixed blessing for the Vatican by John Thavis
- You don’t have to believe in Marian apparitions. But I do. by James Martin, S.J.
- Pope Francis visits Venice Biennale art festival in another papal first
- Interview: Big changes are coming for the Gregorian—Rome’s oldest and largest pontifical university by Gerard O’ Connell
