Overview
- Pope Leo XIV sealed St. Peter’s Holy Door on Epiphany, concluding the 2025 Holy Year and urging Christians to treat foreigners with kindness and resist a profit-only mindset.
- The Vatican reported 33,475,369 participants from 185 countries, noting the total is an approximation derived from registrations, volunteer counts and CCTV that could include double counting.
- The Jubilee featured a rare transition, opened by Pope Francis and closed by his successor, a two-pope sequence last recorded in 1700.
- Italian and Vatican officials cited about €3.7–4 billion spent on some 3,200 projects, including a new pedestrian piazza and tunnel near the Vatican, subway upgrades and restorations such as the Trevi Fountain.
- Organizers praised the year as a catalyst for urban renewal, while some trade groups and media questioned the scale of near-term economic gains.