On Aug. 18, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Helena. ... These relics can still be venerated today, in Rome’s Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem.

A 15th- or 16th-century wooden cross is kept in the Church of the Holy Cross in Montemaggiore Belsito on the Italian island of Sicily, ... In 2016, she moved to Rome, Italy, ...

The next Jubilee Year returns in 2025, officially starting on Dec. 24, 2024, and running until Jan. 6, 2025. Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter ...

The opening of the Holy Door at the basilica officially kicked of the Jubilee year, a church tradition dating to 1300 that nowadays occurs every 25 years and involves the faithful coming to Rome ...

The mother of Constantine the Great, St. Helena, is believed to have restored many sites in the Holy Land, where she discovered the cross on which Christ died and other relics from his Passion.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter ...