Deloitte event marks 100 days to the start of the Jubilee. Archbishop Fisichella: “We will give the world concrete signs of Hope”

Just over three months from the official opening of the 2025 Jubilee, thousands of pilgrims from dioceses all round the world have already registered for the Holy Year. That was the news given yesterday, September 18, by the Pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, during the event “Jubilee 2025 - 100 days to the opening of the Holy Door”, which took place at the Deloitte headquarters in Rome. The Deloitte research project, "Globalizing solidarity" was also presented to mark the occasion.

"In dioceses all round the world, I see a lot of interest and a great desire to participate in the Jubilee,” said the Pro-prefect. “Quantifying the economic impact of the Jubilee, not only on Rome but on the whole of Italy, is not my specialist subject, but I believe that there will be a good return. Pilgrims won’t stop off only in Rome, after having lived the experience of the Jubilee they will want to visit the other ‘art cities’ or, if they have Italian roots, they will want to return to the towns and village of their forebears".

Archbishop Fisichella then focused on the "restlessness" which, he said, is caused by poverty. “Restlessness is caused by a society that presents two paradoxes. The first, that of a wealth that seems to increase for the few. And on the other hand, that of a poverty that increases for many more. There are entire countries that live below the poverty line and so, it is no coincidence that in the document announcing the Jubilee, the Pope also makes a pressing appeal to world leaders to think about the big issues, first and foremost the public debt of certain countries. The Jubilee, precisely because it is a spiritual event, must also focus on the situations of poverty that are present in the world."

In the Bull, the Pope "asks the rich and powerful to consider the great theme of solidarity and the ways in which it might be implemented; he gave an extremely original insight by saying that we are not having a Jubilee where hope is only being proclaimed, we are having a Jubilee where we must also give concrete signs of hope. First of all, the sign is being able to achieve peace. Then, the Pope has mobilized the world’s bishops to lead calls for the abolition of the death penalty where it is still used. There are still too many countries where personal dignity, with a sentence of that kind, is not respected."

In accordance with the wishes of the Holy Father, the Archbishop concluded, "there will be concrete signs which will be the charitable fruit of the Jubilee. There are signs of hope that must be given to the young, the elderly, the sick, and to refugees and migrants. There will also be a Jubilee reserved for government officials, the program is being developed in agreement with the international interparliamentary group, one step at a time."

The Deloitte event was also attended by the Italian Minister for Relations with Parliament, Luca Ciriani, the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, the CEO of Italian Railways, Stefano A. Donnarumma, the CEO of Acea, Fabrizio Palermo and the Director of Communication and Media of the Unipol Group, Vittorio Verdone.