The Papacy 2025: Year in Review

No single year in living memory placed the Catholic Church under greater strain, greater scrutiny, or greater grace than 2025. It began with Pope Francis inaugurating a Jubilee year and telling the world that hope does not disappoint. It ended with a new pope closing the Holy Door on thirty-two million pilgrims, eight months into a pontificate that no one had predicted. Between those two moments lay everything: a pope's death on Easter Monday morning; white smoke on a May evening; the first American in the Chair of Peter; a year of catechesis, canonisations, ecumenical pilgrimage, and the insistent, ancient claim that the door was open and the world was invited through it. The Papacy 2025: Year in Review is a survey of the most dramatic twelve months in modern Catholic history - told month by month, from the first candle of the Jubilee to the closing of the door.

Pages: 144, Paperback, Independently published