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The saint of Christmas and ecumenism: Bari celebrates St. Nicholas

Statue of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Bari, Italy, at the Pontifical Basilica of St. Nicholas. / Credit: Veronica Giacometti/ACI Stampa ACI Stampa, Dec 6, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The people of Bari, a city in southern Italy, have a deep de... [...]

Christmas 2025: Handmade gifts from 14 Catholic monasteries

The contemplative Sisters of the Monastery of Bethlehem in Livingston Manor, New York, support themselves by offering their hand-painted chinaware and other unique gifts for sale. / Credit: Monastery of Bethlehem Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec ... [...]

You better watch out—St. Nicholas is coming to town

Everyone loves jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas. There is something romantic and cozy about telling Santa stories around the crackling fire. He is an icon of the Christmas season. But not everyone agrees about the real [...]

What Benedict XVI taught us about Israel—and why it matters now

When devout Catholic young people start approaching you, troubled by the possibility that God has abandoned the Jews and that they somehow stand behind our social ills, it becomes clear that something has gone deeply [...]

Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part I

True union with God comes not by escaping time but by coursing through it with Christ, its creator and consummator.

Leader of schismatic Colorado Springs group disregards excommunication

Denver, Colorado, Dec 5, 2025 / 18:18 pm After receiving a letter of excommunication from the Vatican, the leader of a schismatic group in Colorado Springs told congregants he would ignore it — furthering the [...]

Sidewalk counselor finds woman crying in pain outside Planned Parenthood clinic in Chicago

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 5, 2025 / 17:54 pm The pro-life nonprofit Coalition Life is planning to ramp up its sidewalk counseling initiative at a Planned Parenthood facility in Chicago after a woman was found [...]

Our Lady of Champion: A Model for Catechesis and Motherhood

Advent is upon us, and as it always includes two special Marian feast days—the Immaculate Conception and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe—we cannot help but ponder the gift of motherhood and the Christ [...]

Staring Into the Abyss

Groypers, Quo Vadis: Decorum and Profanity

While the Groyper movement claims to be fighting for a return of Christian society, much of the way they speak and act would say otherwise.