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Christmas is a season of wonder. It is a time when the world pauses to celebrate a birth that changed history. In 2025, this sacred holiday takes on even deeper significance as it unfolds within the Jubilee Year — a time of renewal, grace, and spiritual pilgrimage. The Nativity story, with its message of divine Read More…

A Jubilee Christmas in Malta: The gift of hope

“We have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” [Hebrews 10:10] I was asked at a Bible study: “Father Dave, why do we Catholics re-sacrifice Jesus every Sunday? Didn’t he die on the Cross only once, and it was good for eternity?” I answered “no” to the first Read More…

A 1st-time mother’s insight helped me explain the Mass 

Every month, Piazza San Pietro — the Vatican magazine begun under Pope Francis and continued by Leo XIV— opens a quiet, unexpected channel between ordinary lives and the Bishop of Rome. Its pages carry letters that speak of fatigue, work, loneliness, and the desire to keep believing that goodness still matters. In its latest issue, Read More…

Pope Leo’s Mailbox: “Can Christmas still teach us hope?”

From Down Under, a recent study on the health and wellbeing of priests conveys some encouraging news. Despite challenges, 95% of those surveyed value their work and nearly three quarters express feelings of hope. The study — the first of its kind in Australia — was commissioned by the Bishops Commission for Evangelization, Laity and Read More…

Despite life’s stresses, Australian clergy are full of hope

It’s great to celebrate the birthday of Jesus by getting Christmas gifts for lots of people — but we run the risk of forgetting to get a gift for the Birthday Boy himself.  In sociological language, there are recommitment holidays like Thanksgiving, where we recommit to family, and tension management holidays, like Halloween, when we Read More…

Don’t forget to give Jesus a gift for Christmas

Pope Leo XIV places a crown on the Madonna of Sinti, Roma, and Walking Peoples during the audience of the Jubilee of the Roma, Sinti, and Traveling Peoples in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Get... [...]

Even the more worrisome elements of Gen Z are in their own way the age-old search for truth.

Leah Libresco Sargeant is a Catholic author, speaker, wife, and mother based in Maryland. She is also a Yale University graduate, the author of several books, including Building the Benedict Option (Ignatius Press, 2018), and [...]

Many Saints have described prayer as an unseen tether connecting us to God. It seems that now, however, we've preferred to tether ourselves to a more distorted reflecting surface.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s recent visit to Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, was brief, risky, and unmistakably symbolic. In a region scarred by jihadist violence since 2017, the Vatican’s Secretary of State came with a message he repeated plainly to local Christians: You are not alone. Cabo Delgado is an outlier in Mozambique — a country Read More…

“You are not alone”: Vatican stands with Mozambique