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From December 2025 through December 2026, the Church is celebrating a Jubilee Year dedicated to John of the Cross, one of Christianity’s most demanding — and enduring — spiritual teachers. Proclaimed by the Discalced Carmelites with papal approval, the jubilee marks two anniversaries: 300 years since his canonization and 100 years since he was named Read More…

Why the Church is marking a Jubilee for John of the Cross

Just days before taking the stage for The Voice Season 28 finale, singer Aubrey Nicole returned to a very different stage: the one that started it all. In a video posted to Instagram on December 7, the top 4 finalist is seen standing in the pews of the historic Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Read More…

This church performance is best yet of ‘The Voice’ finalist

If we are disquieted by the state of the Church and the world, recall that the Christ child chose to enter into it, in bitter cold and darkness.

The sentiment often expressed as, "who am I to judge," is so commonplace in our culture that it hardly raises even a Catholic eyebrow when spoken in the context of Christian morality.

We Catholics tend to have unrealistic expectations about our priests. We want every one of them to deliver brilliant, engaging homilies just like Venerable Fulton Sheen, possess the spiritual depth of Saint Thomas Aquinas, be [...]

Dec 28, 2025 / 08:00 am Monsignor Maurizio Gronchi, an expert consultant for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, clarified that the measure established last month regarding the use of [...]

I was recently interviewed on CTV, Canada’s national broadcaster, about Pope Leo’s start in the papacy. The interviewer asked a question that I have been asked in scores of interviews about the papacy of either [...]

Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for recitation of the Angelus on Dec. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 28, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has sent three trucks carrying human... [...]

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