By Bohumil Petrík EWTN News, Dec 17, 2025 / 04:00 am In a strongly secular European Union, the Balkans’ complex religious reality plays an important role as officials and diplomats …
Just in time for the 10-year anniversary of Laudato Si’ and Christmas, the independent, lay-led program has planted 1,000 trees throughout the archdiocese’s massive geographic footprint — but they’re not stopping …
John Gehring addresses the ways conservative Catholics crafted a coalition with various conservative political forces, sometimes in ways that deeply compromised their faith.
Advent peace is not the peace of sanitized images, writes Kat Armas. It is the peace of God-with-us in our flesh, our struggle, our vulnerability. A peace that does not …
John Prevost reflects on the years after his brother left home, from his brother Robert’s time in the minor seminary and missionary life in Peru to his transition into the …
Pope Leo XIV received Prime Minister Robert Abela of Malta on December 15. “Marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between Malta and the Holy See, we discussed peace, climate change, …
Responding to a psychologist’s letter for a message that can “touch the hearts” of young people, Pope Leo XIV spoke of “the importance of Christian witness as a way to …
St. Olympias Feast date: Dec 17 Born sometime between 360-365, this pious, charitable, and wealthy disciple of St. John Chrysostom came from an illustrious family in Constantinople. Her father (called …
Saint Jose Manyanet y Vives Feast date: Dec 17 St. Jose Manyanet y Vives was born on January 7, 1883 in Catalonia, Spain. At the age of five, José’s mother …
Pope Leo XIV is expected to accept Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s resignation this week — and will possibly name a bishop from the pontiff’s Illinois home state to lead the Archdiocese …
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