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Central Europe Catholics crucial for peace in Europe, U.S. ambassador says

Rome, Italy, Nov 26, 2025 / 10:15 am Catholics in Central Europe — especially in Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, and Hungary — play a vital role in fostering reconciliation and peace on the continent, the U.S. [...]

‘An encounter with Jesus’: Artist behind living wall memorial for unborn shares mission

CNA Staff, Nov 26, 2025 / 09:00 am Amid the sounds of Arkansas’ waterfalls, women who have had abortions will someday be able to find healing at a “living wall” memorial covered in flora and [...]

Pope Leo centralizes oversight of St. Peter’s and St. Mary Major basilicas

Vatican City, Nov 26, 2025 / 08:00 am Pope Leo XIV has issued a new decree revising the financial and administrative norms governing the basilicas of St. Peter and St. Mary Major, bringing both institutions [...]

How the man who became Pope John XXIII helped shape Vatican-Turkey relations

ACI MENA, Nov 26, 2025 / 07:00 am Pope Leo XIV’s journey to Turkey and Lebanon carries significant historical and diplomatic symbolism. His decision to make the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk his first stop [...]

Caritas Ukraine leads efforts to reintegrate children taken by Russia in war

CNA Staff, Nov 26, 2025 / 06:00 am On Friday at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV met with U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, and a delegation of Ukrainian mothers, wives, and teenagers forcibly taken to Russia [...]

Pope Leo on Thanksgiving: “There are many things I’m thankful for”

As journalists gathered outside Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo last night, Pope Leo XIV paused to speak about global tensions, interreligious concerns in light of the trip he begins tomorrow, and the hopes he carries into this uncertain moment. Yet amid questions on Ukraine, the distant prospect of peace in the Middle East, and violence Read More…

Pope Leo on Thanksgiving: “There are many things I’m thankful for”

Pope: We need confidence in life!

Life is not “a threat” or “a parenthesis between two eternal nights,” said Pope Leo XIV during the general audience of November 26, 2025. Before tens of thousands of faithful attending this weekly gathering, the Pope encouraged people to live in hope, despite the difficulties of daily life. In his catechesis, Leo XIV focused on Read More…

Pope: We need confidence in life!

Becoming a thanks-giving, thanks-doing, thanks-saying people

In all circumstances give thanks,for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.[1 Thessalonians 5:18] When I started in priestly ministry, I heard of another priest who kept a stack of notecards, and would end each day by writing a simple thank you or a greeting to anyone who touched his life Read More…

Becoming a thanks-giving, thanks-doing, thanks-saying people

‘Polyamory’ in West, polygamy in Africa: Vatican defends monogamy

On November 25, 2025, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) published Una Caro (“One Flesh”), a 40-page document in Italian that celebrates monogamy as the founding principle of marriage. This doctrinal note, approved by Leo XIV on November 21, advocates an “intimate and totalizing” relationship between a man and a woman in Read More…

‘Polyamory’ in West, polygamy in Africa: Vatican defends monogamy

Leo XIV in Turkey: A first major test in the Orthodox world

On Friday, Pope Leo XIV will be at Lake Iznik, nearly 95 miles southeast of Istanbul. Together with some 20 Christian leaders — the list of participants has not yet been released — he will recite the Creed, the first Christian confession of faith, which was probably drafted at this very location exactly 1,700 years Read More…

Leo XIV in Turkey: A first major test in the Orthodox world