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
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
Papal Altar and Canopy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Baldachin
Chair of Saint Peter
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
Gallery of the Candelabra
"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
Jenny Nicholson on the Star Wars Hotel