La chapelle Urbain VIII du Palais apostolique a accueilli ce mercredi, jour où l'Église commémore sainte Agnès, la présentation au Pape du couple d'agneaux dont la laine sera utilisée pour confectionner les palliums des nouveaux archevêques métropolitains. https://www.vaticannews.va/fr/pape/news/2026-01/agneaux-memoire-sainte-agnes-pape-pallium-apotre-pierre-paul.html | Vatican News

Pope Francis presided over Holy Mass for the VIII World Day of the Poor in St. Peter’s Basilica. After Sunday’s Angelus, the Pope will have lunch in Paul VI Hall with 1,300 poor people. | EWTN Vatican

Francesca Merlo looks back at the history of the Jubilee Year. Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the first Christian Jubilee in the year 1300, offering a spiritual reinterpretation of the ancient Hebrew tradition. While the Biblical Jubilee focused on freeing slaves, the Christian version offers liberation from sins, and from the punishment due to sin that must be faced in Purgatory. There was an atmosphere of anticipation for the beginning of the new century, and Rome was filled with pilgrims. Thos