Pope Francis opens Holy Door to begin Jubilee of Mercy

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[h=4]Pope Francis opens Holy Door to begin Jubilee of Mercy[/h]Pope Francis opened the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday, marking the beginning of the Jubilee of Mercy — a special Holy Year, amid heightened security. More than 10 million pilgrims are expected

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Pope Francis marks the start of an extraordinary Jubilee year for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics at the St Peter's basilica.
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Pope Francis enters St. Peter's Basilica after pushing open the Holy Door, formally launching the Holy Year of Mercy, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.(Photo: AP)


Pope Francis opened the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday, marking the beginning of the Jubilee of Mercy — a special Holy Year, amid heightened security.
More than 10 million pilgrims are expected to pass through the bronze door, which is usually sealed, during the 12-month period.
Holy doors will also be opened for the first time at cathedrals around the world during the Jubilee of Mercy. An extra 5,000 security officers were deployed around Rome, and a no-fly zone has been imposed to protect the arriving pilgrims.
The pope held a special Mass in St. Peter's Square before a crowd of an estimated 50,000 people to begin his "revolution of tenderness," Tuesday, and said that mercy trumps moralizing in the Catholic Church, the Associated Press reported.
"How much wrong we do to God and his grace when we speak of sins being punished by his judgment before we speak of their being forgiven by his mercy," Francis said, according to the AP. "We have to put mercy before judgment, and in any event God's judgment will always be in the light of his mercy."
He then pushed open the door and walked through it, followed by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.
On Tuesday night to mark the occasion, a coalition of humanitarian groups will project images of life on earth by well-known photographers and filmmakers on the facade of St. Peter's, inspired by climate change, fauna and human dignity.
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