Month: December 2025

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Bishop Mario Avilés. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Brownsville Vatican City, Dec 1, 2025 / 13:44 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday appointed Bishop Mario Avilés …

Jimmy Akin corrects popular Franciscan YouTuber Fr. Casey Cole’s claim that it’s “not appropriate” to pray privately after Communion and that EVERYONE must sing the Communion hymn. Jimmy goes through …

Pope Leo XIV greets a young mother and her child outside of the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Bkerke, Lebanon, …

Robert P. George, a Catholic academic focused on philosophy and law, resigned from his board position at the conservative Heritage Foundation on Nov. 17 after the think tank’s leader Kevin …

Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon over the weekend is a recognition of the importance of Lebanon’s religious pluralism and a message to Christians not to abandon the region.

Pope Leo XIV in Harissa, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 1, 2025 / 10:35 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV told Lebanon’s religious leaders …

The stories of holy encounter in İznik and across Türkiye need to be told more often.

Now I am going to tell you about something that until I did this article I knew next to nothing about — Advent fasting customs of the Eastern Rite. All …

Believers and non-believers alike sometimes balk at the demanding nature of St. Paul’s exhortation in 1 Thessalonians 5: “Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is …