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Often in prayer we will want Jesus to speak to us plainly, using audible words that we can hear. When we don’t hear those words, we may be tempted to give-up on prayer, or to think that God isn’t listening. In fact, we often blame God in such situations, thinking that God is the one Read More…

Do we notice Jesus knocking at the door of our heart?

In the Northern Hemisphere, Lent coincides with the bitter end of winter, and Easter with the start of spring. The month of dead leaves, November, is the month of the dead — and May, the month of abundant life, is the month of Mary, the New Eve, mother of all the living.  The Church gets Read More…

4 Lessons Christ taught by coming when he did

Nearing eight months in the Chair of Peter, Pope Leo today asked young people to pray for his intentions. Leo XIV marked his first “Bambinelli Sunday” — a Roman tradition in which children and families bring the Baby Jesus figurines from their Nativity scenes for a papal blessing. The Pope took the occasion to ask Read More…

Pope asks kids to pray for his intentions

This week, Pope Leo met with young members of Catholic Action, urging them to be like the angels who announced God’s glory and peace to the shepherds. He pointed them toward the example of newly canonized Saints Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassatti:  By acting like them, your proclamation of peace will be radiant, because Read More…

Loving Christmas with our 2 new, young saints

Pope Leo offered a reflection on St. Joseph on this last Sunday of Advent, highlighting four of his virtues that will help us to ready our hearts for Christmas. As he often does, the Pope drew from his spiritual father, St. Augustine. This led him to focus on four of Joseph’s virtues: Piety and charity, Read More…

Pope spotlights 4 of Joseph’s virtues for final days of Advent

On Christmas Eve in 1920, the author J.R.R. Tolkien penned a letter to his three-year-old son, which he signed from “Father Christmas.” Thus started a long-running tradition of letters from Father Christmas to the Tolkien children. The letters developed over the years from simple notes into full-blown stories with illustrations, invented languages, and authentic stamps Read More…

The most important take-away from Tolkien’s Christmas letters

On the Atlantic shore of Gran Canaria island, Christmas takes shape not in marble or wood, but in sand. The Sand Nativity Scene has opened once again on Las Canteras beach, marking its 20th anniversary with monumental sculptures that transform the shoreline into a place of wonder, prayer, and quiet awe. What began as a Read More…

Sand, sea, and Scripture: Spain’s beach Nativity returns

The ancient Aqaba Church witnesses to early Christianity in Jordan. / Credit: Sanad Sahliyeh/ACI MENA ACI MENA, Dec 21, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). In Aqaba, a port city on the Red Sea in Jordan, an archaeological church site dating to the late thir... [...]