In Jubilee Surge, Visitor Office Connects Americans to the Pope

In Jubilee Surge, Visitor Office Connects Americans to the Pope

A member of the Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Mich., distributes tickets for the weekly general audience to a guest at the Bishops’ Office for U.S. Visitors to the Vatican on Feb. 4, 2025. The visitors’ office is located in the Casa Santa Maria of the Pontifical North American College. (Photo: Lola Gomez/CNS) In the late 1850s, an emissary sent by the Holy See to the United States returned with two recommendations: establish a college in Rome for Am…