On this episode of Out Of Office: A Travel Podcast, the boys Catholic out hard. In celebration of Lent, “Conclave,” and a Catholic Jubilee Year, Kiernan talks us through the top sites to see in Vatican City. Rome is expecting 32M visitors this year, and now each and every one can listen to Out of Office!

Things We Talked About on Today’s Episode:

Jubilee 2025

https://www.usccb.org/jubilee2025

Holy Doors

https://www.ewtnvatican.com/articles/5-holy-doors-what-every-catholic-should-know-ahead-of-jubilee-2025-4075

Saint Peter’s

https://www.basilicasanpietro.va/en/

Pope John XXIII

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/martyrs-miracles-and-the-stuff-of-making-saints/

Vatican II

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-10/vatican-ii-council-60th-anniversary-video-history-background.html

Papal Altar and Canopy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Baldachin

Chair of Saint Peter

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/historic-chair-of-st-peter-on-public-display-in-vatican-basilica-for-first-time-in-150-years

Tomb of Saint Peter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter%27s_tomb

Saint Peter Statue

https://stpetersbasilica.info/Statues/StPeter/StPeter.htm

La Pieta

https://fa-inkwell.org/1039/arts/artists-review-la-pieta-one-of-michelangelos-earliest-works/

Vatican Museums

https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en.html

Laocoon and his Sons

https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/museo-pio-clementino/Cortile-Ottagono/laocoonte.html

Gallery of the Candelabra

https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/museo-pio-clementino/Galleria-dei-Candelabri/galleria-dei-candelabri.html

“School of Athens”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Athens

Sistine Chapel “In Our Time” episode

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015vh8

Sistine Chapel pre-reading

https://www.througheternity.com/en/blog/art/michelangelo-last-judgment-sistine-chapel-vatican.html

Omio

https://www.omio.com/

Jenny Nicholson on the Star Wars Hotel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4