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Vatican City, Dec 7, 2025 / 09:00 am Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said his apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon showed that “peace is possible,” pointing to renewed steps toward Christian unity and powerful [...]

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 7, 2025 / 09:00 am While teaching an ethics and culture course, Heidi Bollich-Erne was looking for a journal featuring the work of Catholic women for her students to read. After [...]

Rome Newsroom, Dec 7, 2025 / 08:00 am The Vatican’s gardeners have a new tool for maintaining the papal grounds: a custom-designed electric lawn mower bearing the Holy See’s coat of arms. Pope Leo XIV [...]

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December 7 is the birthday of Irish saint Columba, founder of many monasteries — Derry, Durrow and Kells in his homeland but the most famous being on the Isle of Iona in Argyll. He was a missionary to Scotland and is credited as one of the nation’s early founders. The Book of Kells hails St. Read More…

Get to know a patron saint of poetry on his 1,504th birthday

After praying the midday Angelus this December 7, Pope Leo noted his return last week from his first apostolic visit, which brought him to Turkey and Lebanon. He said: A few days ago I returned from my first Apostolic Journey to Türkiye and Lebanon.  With my beloved brother Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Read More…

Leo lauds 60 years since pope, patriarch made history

Noting the 60th anniversary of the end of Vatican II and our continued Advent journey, Pope Leo on this December 7 said that we can take a reminder from the lights on the street, “that each of us can be a little light, if we welcome Jesus, the shoot of a new world.” The Pope Read More…

Advent spirituality is concrete, says Pope Leo

“Priests are swapping stories about record attendance numbers,” Ruth Graham reported in the New York Times on November 19, and “strategizing about how to accommodate more prospective converts than existing clergy can reasonably handle on their own.” She was writing about Orthodox churches, but The New York Post saw the same trend in Catholics. “Young Read More…

It’s official: Christianity is on the rise

CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2025 / 07:00 am The Black and Indian Mission Office in Washington, D.C., recently released two documentaries — one highlighting African American Catholics on the path to sainthood and the focusing [...]