Over 1,000 LGBTQ Catholics and their families walked through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica this weekend as part of a Jubilee pilgrimage listed on the Vatican’s official Holy Year calendar. The ...

Andrea Mattei, holding a cross, arrives with other members of the LGBTQ community to attend a service in the Church of the Gesù in central Rome on September 5, 2025. - Andrew Medichini/AP The Church ...

In a first for the Vatican, more than a thousand LGBTQ Catholics and their supporters are this weekend holding a pilgrimage, in what they are promoting as an important sign of diversity in the Church.

Jubilee Episcopal Church Delaney Schueler grew up in the church. She led worship at her local nondenominational parish in ...

Walking through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, the culmination of any Jubilee pilgrimage, many LGBTQ Catholics and the people who minister with them kissed or caressed the panels of the door.

A lesbian Catholic couple and their daughter were among LGBTQ+ Jubilee pilgrims who passed through the Vatican’s holy door at the weekend. “It is necessary for greater openness and inclusion,” queer ...

Thousands of LGBTQ Catholics, with their families and supporters, have participated in a holy year pilgrimage to Rome, walking through the holy door of St. Peter's Basilica. (AP video by Isaia ...

The Church of the Gesù in central Rome was packed, as a procession with a cross in rainbow colors moved up the central aisle. The service marked the first officially recognized pilgrimage of LGBTQ ...