Pope Leo XIV presides over Mass on Gaudete Sunday and during the Jubilee of Prisoners in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Dec. 14, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo calls on governments to grant pardons for prisoners during Jubilee year

On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called for nations to give out amnesties and pardons to prisoners during the Jubilee year.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a taping of FOX News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier at the Washington bureau of FOX News, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (Credit: Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP.)

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Bishop Steve Wood of St. Andrew’s Church thanks health care workers at East Cooper Medical Center, where he was a patient fighting COVID-19 easier in the year, during an evening event to honor health care workers at East Cooper Medical Center Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP.)

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A fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" adorns the wall of a 3rd-century tomb in Hisardere, where archaeologists uncovered one of Anatolia's best-preserved early Christian artworks, in Iznik, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Credit: Khalil Hamra/AP.)

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A doll representing the baby Jesus is zip-tied in the Nativity scene outside of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Evanston, Ill. (Credit: Erin Hooley/AP.)

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A woman cries as she looks up at the Virgin of Guadalupe image handing on the wall at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, on her feast day, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Credit: Claudia Rosel/AP.)

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Bangladeshi migrant workers who are illegally going abroad are sent back to the country. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, arrives to meet with Pope Leo XIV in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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Katisha Paul of the Lil'wat and Tsartlip Nations, left, and Peyal Laceese of the Tsilhqot'in nation touch a crate containing indigenous artifacts and cultural items at Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, after they were returned by the Vatican. (Credit: Graham Hughes /The Canadian Press via AP.)

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The Jerusalem Regional Archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority, Dr. Amit Re'im, walks in a section of an excavation site where, according to the institution, a city wall from the Hasmonean period, dating to the late 2nd century BCE, was uncovered under the Tower of David Citadel Museum, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Credit: Leo Correa/AP.)

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Pope Leo XIV meets with the participants in the Conference "Artificial Intelligence and Care of Our Common Home" in the Vatican on Dec. 5, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Burnt cars at the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria on Dec. 25, 2011. (Credit: Sunday Aghaeze/AP.)

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A man with his wife and two of his brides walk, during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

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In this July 8, 2021, file photo, a lobster boat carries a heavy load of traps as it motors out to sea near Peaks Island in Portland, Maine. (Credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP.)

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