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Pilgrims visit Rome for the Jubilee of People with Disabilities on Monday, April 28, 2025. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNAVatican City, Apr 29, 2025 / 16:49 pm (CNA).Thousands of people from more than 90 countries gathered in Rome this week to celebrate the Catholic Church's Jubilee of People with Disabilities. Wheelchairs rolled across cobblestones and walking aids clicked on the marble floors of St. Peter's Basilica as people with disabilities passed through the Holy Door for the Jubilee of Hope, entrusting their prayers to the Lord. "I pray for a better world, I pray for a world where inclusion becomes a normality," 18-year-old Anna Maria Gargiulo from Perugia, Italy, told CNA. "I am blind from birth, but for me this is not a problem," she added. "I experience it rather as a possibility, because I look at the world with different eyes." Perugia, Italy, resident Anna Maria Gargiulo attends the celebration of the Jubilee of People with Disabilities in Rome on ...

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Cardinals participate in Day 4 of the Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis on April 29, 2025, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, Apr 29, 2025 / 18:06 pm (CNA).The way to evangelization is "unreserved openness" to others, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, OFM Conv, said on the fourth day of the Novendiales, the Church's nine days of mourning for Pope Francis.Gambetti, who is archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, celebrated the Mass for the repose of Pope Francis' soul in the presence of the cardinals and the chapters of the four papal basilicas, which are groups of clergy entrusted with ensuring the liturgical and sacramental care of the basilicas.The first reading at the Mass, held in St. Peter's Basilica, was from the Acts of the Apostles and quotes Peter, who says: "In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him."In a globalized, secular age that is thirsty for t...

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Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, OFM Conv, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, delivers the homily during the fourth day of Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis on April 29, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, Apr 29, 2025 / 18:36 pm (CNA).Editor's Note: On April 29, 2025, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, OFM Conv, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, delivered the following homily during the fourth day of Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis. The text below is a CNA working translation of the Italian original published by the Vatican.The Gospel passage is well known. A grand scene with a universalistic character: All peoples, living together in the one field that is the world, are gathered before the Son of Man, seated on the throne of his glory to judge.The message is clear: In the lives of all, believers and nonbelievers alike, there is a moment of discrimination; at a certain point some begin to share in the same joy of God, others begin to suffer the tremendous suffering of true l...