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The topic of Marian devotion has returned to the forefront of the Church in recent months, driven by a series of clarifications. On November 4, the dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly CDF) published the doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis (Mother of the Faithful People), clarifying certain titles attributed to the Virgin Mary Read More…

Pope Leo XIV, a Marian pope … and a cautious one

With the Christmas countdown in full swing and many of us frantically checking off shopping lists, it’s easy to get caught up in the pressure to find the “perfect” gift. But at the recent Westminster Abbey carol service hosted by Catherine, Princess of Wales, actress Kate Winslet offered a timely reminder: that the most meaningful Read More…

Stuck for a gift? Kate Winslet has the perfect idea

Archbishop Bernard Hebda led a rite of reparation at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday, December 6, restoring the building for worship months after two students were killed in a shooting. A rite of reparation is a special Mass celebrated by the local bishop after a church building is desecrated by “seriously offensive Read More…

Church where shooting happened “reclaimed” for God with special rite

Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo had his passport confiscated at Simón Bolívar Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela, as he prepared to travel abroad, according to Spanish-language media reports on December 10, 2025. In addition to Vatican outlets that covered the incident, several voices denounced what they called a “violation of the rights” of a citizen. The Read More…

Venezuela: Authorities seize Cardinal Porras’s passport

Christmas festivities in Bethlehem have returned with the first public tree lighting at the Church of the Nativity since the start of the Gaza War, in what local leaders say is a glimmer of hope after two very hard years. “It’s been a bad two years of silence; no Christmas, no jobs, no work,” Bethlehem Read More…

Christmas trees return to Bethlehem

We can look at the rise of figures such as Nick Fuentes as a crisis of true shepherds.

Dr. Zhivago is a study in sin taking hold over an entire society, which conversely also makes it the perfect Christmas story.

I didn’t expect a day at the beach to turn into a doorway into a cloistered monastery. … ~ The manuscript was thick, intimidatingly so. I tossed it into my bag, with a bottle of water, a towel, and the excuse every work-from-anywhere person knows by heart: “I’m going to work … at the beach.” Read More…

Joy within his house: How a guy with a camera got into a cloister

“Sparkling, precious gold from distant times…” Thus begins the magnificent book about the “Ors précolombiens du Musée profane” (“Pre-Columbian Gold of the Profane Museum”), edited by Jean-François Genotte, presented on November 27 at the Vatican Museums. It’s an unexpected presence in the popes’ museums: what are these large pectorals of gleaming alloys, with chiseled eagle Read More…

The Vatican Museums reveal the treasures of the Muiscas

A reunification of Orthodoxy with Catholicism could remind each of what was lost in the schism.