Rector Tanjić in TV show "Word and Life" on Croatian national television

On Friday, January 3, 2025, rector of the Catholic University of Croatia, prof. Željko Tanjić, PhD, spoke about the significance of the 27th Jubilee for the Catholic Church in the show "Word and Life", broadcasted by Croatian Radio Television.

The Jubilee puts us on the essentials, three dimensions. Mercy and forgiveness, which is mediated through the community of the Church that celebrates, and in the end also what concerns others, what concerns the forgiveness of sins, what we call in theology, the consequences of sin. These are the basic features of the Jubilee, along with pilgrimage, prayer, liturgical celebration, acts of penance and love and what has become established in tradition, passing through the Holy Door.

Millions of pilgrims are expected in Rome for the Jubilee. The Croatian national pilgrimage is planned for October 2025, although some parishes have announced their Jubilee pilgrimages earlier in the year. Rector Tanjić lived in Rome for several years, which is why he shared some advice for future pilgrims.

A pilgrim and a tourist are seemingly no different, and yet there is a big difference, the reason and the goal for which they came. That's the difference; internal preparedness. It would be important to plan that trip well. It is not the same to be two, three or five days. I think the most important thing would be to visit the four basilicas (St. Peter, Mary the Great, John Lateran, St. Paul outside the walls, op.a.).

"Hope does not disappoint" - is the name of the papal bull with which he declared the Jubilee Year, and it indicates that the Holy Father wants believers in a world full of unrest, wars, apathy and hopelessness to bring hope that comes from faith in Jesus Christ.