'No idea how many' Holy Doors to open

(ANSA) - Vatican City, December 11 - Vatican Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi on Wednesday said he has "no idea how many" Holy Doors will be opened in Catholic dioceses throughout the world for the Jubilee Holy Year of Mercy.
    "I don't think anyone (knows) - there are those who have three of them, those who have six, those who have nine - it's a truly new situation, this multiplicity of doors, we don't have a precedent," Lombardi said. "One must look at the multiplicity and the situations in which they are opened, which indicate closeness to peripheries and the poor," he said.
    Lombardi said there are no estimates yet as to how many people have walked through the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica, which Pope Francis opened on December 8. As to criticism of those who seem to view the Jubilee as a tourist event, he said "we're always working to make people aware" of its meaning.