Jubilee 2025 Closure: Empty Ritual of a Counterfeit Church
VaticanNews portal (January 5, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV will close the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on January 6, 2026, formally ending a Jubilee Year that began on December 24, 2024. The ceremony, derived from a 1975 innovation and “simplified” by Wojtyła (“John Paul II”) in 2000, reduces the ritual to merely shutting the door leaves while postponing the walling-up to a private event days later. The portal’s reverent tone toward this sacrilege exemplifies the neo-church’s divorce from Catholic tradition.