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The pope with boys and girls from Italian Catholic Action on Dec. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV told the young people of Italian Catholic Action that they can perform a simple ge... [...]

Pope Leo XIV has convened an “extraordinary” consistory — a meeting with the cardinals — to be held in Rome on January 7-8, 2026, the Holy See officially announced on December 20. Eight months after the conclave, the cardinals will return to Rome for a major meeting with the Pope, who is counting on their Read More…

Pope Leo’s January meeting with cardinals confirmed

“The Jubilee is coming to an end, but the hope that this year has given us will not fade,” said Pope Leo XIV during the final Jubilee audience, held in St. Peter’s Square on December 20, 2025. On the day before the final Sunday of Advent, he affirmed that “to hope is to give birth,” Read More…

Evil begets nothing, hope gives life, says Pope

Iskali, a ministry that serves young Hispanic Catholics in the United States, seeks to form active missionary disciples. / Credit: Iskali CNA Staff, Dec 20, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Fifteen years ago, Vicente Del Real felt called to create a way ... [...]

Readings: • Isa 7:10-14 • Ps 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 • Rom 1:1-7 • Mt 1:18-24 Looking on thee, O Unwedded One, and dreading a hidden wedlock, O Sinless One, the chaste Joseph was riven in [...]

What The Sound of Music lacks—whether due to cultural superficiality or merely time constraint—is the deep spirituality of Maria and the family’s lived Catholicism.

CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 18:35 pm Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, arrived in Gaza City on Dec. 19 for a pastoral visit to Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic church in the [...]

Vatican City, Dec 19, 2025 / 16:22 pm Pope Leo XIV approved new labor regulations at the Office of Labor of the Apostolic See (ULSA, by its Italian acronym), the Holy See’s body responsible for managing labor [...]

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 19, 2025 / 15:52 pm U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there will be a plan “early next month” for religious worker visas that would avoid giving preference to one [...]

San Diego, California, Dec 19, 2025 / 15:22 pm Bishop of San Diego Michael Pham dedicated “Angels Unawares,” a new sculpture on the campus of the University of San Diego (USD), on Thursday. The 8-foot-tall bronze [...]