The doors are sealed prior to the jubilee but are ceremoniously reopened by the Pope or a bishop around the start of the jubilee for pilgrims to walk through. A member of the maintenance crew at ...

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The U.S. bishops on Tuesday designated the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington ... to Rome to pass through the Holy Doors and obtain the jubilee indulgence ...