The Jubilee, Archbishop Fisichella and La Tenda di Gionata

 By Roberto de Mattei   |   15 January 2025

On 24 December, with the opening of the Holy Door of St Peter’s, Pope Francis inaugurated the 2025 Jubilee. The Pope crossed the threshold of the Door and entered the Basilica to the resounding words of the Gospel of John, “I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved” and then of Psalm 117, “This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it”.

Behind him was a procession of cardinals, bishops, priests and several families representing the five continents. On 26 December the Pope opened, for the first time in an ordinary Jubilee, a Holy Door in the Roman prison of Rebibbia, and on 29 December that of the Basilica of St John Lateran, the Cathedral of Rome. At the same time, the Jubilee Year was opened by all the bishops of the world.

Tradition has it that every Jubilee is to be proclaimed through the publication of a papal bull of Indiction. The Jubilee of 2025 was proclaimed at St Peter’s on 9 May 2024, with the bull Spes Non Confundit —“hope does not disappoint” (Rom 5:5). In this bull, Pope Francis recalls that “hope, together with faith and charity, makes up the triptych of the ‘theological virtues’ that express the heart of the Christian life”. Supernatural hope has eternal life as its object. “Another reality having to do with eternal life”, the pope recalled, “is God’s judgement, both at the end of our individual lives and at the end of history. … The sacrament of Penance assures us that God wipes away our sins.”

The Apostolic Penitentiary has published the norms on the granting of Indulgence during the 2025 Jubilee. The Indulgence, with the remission and forgiveness of sins, can be received by all of the faithful who are “truly repentant”, “moved by a spirit of charity”, “who, during the Holy Year, purified through the sacrament of penance and refreshed by Holy Communion, pray for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff”, visiting one of the four Major Papal Basilicas of Rome or one of the numerous sacred places provided by the Church all over the world.

However, to obtain the indulgence it is not enough to pass through the Holy Door. One must confess and be repentant for one’s sins. The Council of Trent defines repentance as “a sorrow of the soul and a detestation of the sin committed with the intention of sinning no more” (Sess. 14, chap. 4). Without the intention of not sinning, there is no forgiveness of sins or remission of the punishments that are the consequence of sins.

It is in this light that we must judge news like that of the possible participation in the Jubilee of the La Tenda di Gionata — “the Tent of Jonathan”, an association that claims to reconcile the Christian faith with the practice of homosexuality.

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