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Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the recitation of the Angelus on Dec. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 28, 2025 / 09:49 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Sunday urged Christian families ... [...]

Pope Paul VI visited the Holy Land in 1964. The trip was momentous for Christian unity, but it also gave the Holy Father and future canonized saint an opportunity to reflect on the many lessons to be learned in Nazareth. One of his reflections from the trip is now part of the Office of Readings Read More…

3 Lessons Pope Paul VI found in Nazareth

Cardinal Mykola Bychok of Sydney and Bishop Columba Macbeth-Green of Wilcannia-Forbes will preside over the groundbreaking of a new monastery for an order of Discalced Carmelite nuns on January 10, as the order officially establishes a presence in the town of Mathoura, New South Wales, Australia. The Discalced Carmelites arrived in Mathoura in 2019, and Read More…

Carmelite monastery coming to New South Wales, Australia

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 28, 2025 / 07:00 am Despite opposition from advocacy groups and Catholic leaders, multiple states and countries advanced legislation in 2025 to expand access to physician-assisted suicide. Delaware Delaware Gov. Matt [...]

During the Advent and Christmas seasons, we look tenderly at the Nativity scene and imagine how difficult it must have been for Mary and Joseph to lay their son Jesus in the straw in a stable. The manger, where animals fed, became the cradle of the One who feeds the world. In the Nativity scenes Read More…

Why is a can of sardines among the treasures of the Vatican?

After his first international trip to Turkey and Lebanon in November-December, Pope Leo XIV is expected to continue his “pilgrimage” around the globe, following in the footsteps of his predecessors. Here are some potential destinations for 2026 and beyond. “I hope to go to Algeria,” the Pope told reporters aboard the plane taking him back Read More…

What trips might be in store for Leo XIV in 2026?

Rome Newsroom, Dec 28, 2025 / 06:00 am On a small street in the center of Naples, Italy, artisans like Giovanni Giudice work to preserve the custom of handcrafted Neapolitan Nativity scenes, a tradition dating [...]

“The bright image of Christmas is suddenly almost eclipsed by the disturbing shadow of a deadly threat,” Pope Leo reflected on this feast of the Holy Family before praying the midday Angelus. Considering the Gospel reading, which recounts the flight of Joseph, Mary, and the Child into Egypt, the Pope spoke about the great fear Read More…

Why Herod cannot see what’s happening in his Kingdom

The Holy Family gives us a “lesson in family life” and Jesus’ time with Mary and Joseph is meant to “teach us what family life is,” says the Catechism.   That’s critically important because family love is what God wants the whole world to look like. “The Christian family loudly proclaims both the present virtues of Read More…

Respect, serve, cherish, and live: 4 Family resolutions

One day after returning from the Gaza Strip, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa met with journalists in Jerusalem to share what he had witnessed: a population exhausted by more than two years of war, yet animated by a quiet determination to live again. It was his second visit to Gaza in six months — and the first Read More…

Pizzaballa on Gaza: War’s end is only a beginning