The year in review: 2025 in the Catholic Church
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January 9, 2026
A year of two popes and a Jubilee Year, 2025 was one to remember.
The turning of the calendar is a time to remember God’s great love and “to ask forgiveness for all the times we have failed to treasure his inspirations and invest the talents he has entrusted to us in the best possible way,” the pope said at his Dec. 31 audience.
Pope Leo highlighted three “important events” of the past year: “some of them joyful, such as the pilgrimage of so many of the faithful on the occasion of the Holy Year; others painful, such as the passing of the late Pope Francis, and the scenarios of war that continue to convulse the planet.”
