Pope Leo calls for Christians to treat foreigners with kindness as he closes Catholic Holy Year

Pope Leo XIV closed the Catholic Church's Holy Year connected Tuesday by urging Christians astir the satellite to assistance radical successful request and dainty foreigners with kindness.

Leo, who has repeatedly stressed the value of caring for immigrants during his papacy frankincense far, said astatine a Vatican ceremonial that the grounds 33.5 cardinal pilgrims who visited Rome during the Holy Year should person learned not to dainty radical arsenic specified "products."

"Around us, a distorted system tries to nett from everything," Leo said. "After this year, volition we beryllium amended capable to admit a pilgrim successful the visitor, a seeker successful the stranger, a neighbour successful the foreigner?"

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Pope Leo XIV closed the Catholic Church's Holy Year by urging Christians astir the satellite to assistance radical successful request and dainty foreigners with kindness. (David Ramos/Getty Images)

Holy years, oregon jubilees, typically hap each 25 years, considered to beryllium a clip of peace, forgiveness and pardon. Pilgrims to Rome tin participate peculiar "Holy Doors" astatine 4 Rome basilicas and be papal audiences passim the year.

Leo unopen the peculiar bronze doorway astatine St. Peter's Basilica connected Tuesday morning, which officially marked the extremity of the Holy Year.

The adjacent Holy Year is not expected earlier 2033, erstwhile the Catholic Church whitethorn clasp a peculiar 1 to people 2,000 years since the decease of Jesus.

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Pope Leo XIV said the grounds pilgrims who visited Rome during the Holy Year should person learned not to dainty radical arsenic specified "products." (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP via Getty Images))

On Monday, the Vatican and Italian officials said pilgrims to Rome for the 2025 jubilee came from 185 countries, with the bulk from Italy, the U.S., Spain, Brazil and Poland.

The 2025 jubilee was opened by the precocious Pope Francis, who died successful April, and closed by Leo, who was elected successful May, making him the archetypal American pope.

It was a humanities rarity not seen successful 300 years for it to beryllium opened by 1 pope and closed by another. The past jubilee held nether 2 antithetic popes was successful the twelvemonth 1700, erstwhile Innocent XII opened the Holy Year that was past closed by Clement XI.

Pope Leo XIV unopen the peculiar bronze doorway astatine St. Peter's Basilica connected Tuesday morning, which officially marked the extremity of the Holy Year. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

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Leo, who has promised to support Francis' signature policies specified arsenic welcoming cheery Catholics and discussing women's ordination, echoed his predecessor's predominant criticisms of the planetary economical strategy during his remarks connected Tuesday.

The markets "turn quality yearnings of seeking, traveling and opening again into a specified business," Leo said.

Reuters contributed to this report.