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PHOTOS: Pope Leo meets the tiniest members of the flock — babies
Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby on All Saints Day’ 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 25, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has welcomed and …
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A Christmas I Will Never Forget
AgencjaMagico‘Polish Christmas Dinner’ COMMENTARY: A Polish Christmas Eve tradition, kept year after year, came to life in a way none of us expected.
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Christmas and the Tyranny of the Possible
James Tissot, “The Magi in the House of Herod,” Brooklyn Museum, New York COMMENTARY: The Incarnation exposes how often ‘realism’ confuses political limits with divine possibility.
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Pope, at Christmas Day Mass, says wars fed by falsehoods send young people to their deaths
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on December 25, 2025. / Daniel Ibañez/ EWTN News Vatican City, Dec 25, 2025 / 06:35 am (CNA). …
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Pope, at Christmas Day Mass, says wars fed by falsehoods send young people to their deaths
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on December 25, 2025. / Daniel Ibañez/ EWTN News Vatican City, Dec 25, 2025 / 06:35 am (CNA). …
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“He has burst out of all things and broken the bounds of eternity”
Detail from “Theotokos of Vladimir” (c. 1100/Wikipedia) Readings:• Isa 52:7-10• Psa 98:1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6.• Heb 1:1-6• Jn 1:1-18 “There has fallen on earth for a token/A god too great …
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Our Christmas Mission
The Child in the manger sends us out to announce his presence, Msgr. Roger Landry reminds us. COMMENTARY: Christmas is a celebration when the Church seeks to renew in every …
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The story behind Italy’s favorite Christmas carol
The Shrine of Santa Maria della Consolazione in Deliceto, Italy, where St. Alphonsus Liguori was inspired to write and compose the famous Italian Christmas carol, “Tu Scendi dalle Stelle,” in 1744. …
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The story behind Italy’s favorite Christmas carol
By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Dec 25, 2025 / 06:00 am If you spend any part of Christmas in Italy, you are sure to hear one of the country’s most …
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Merry Christmas!
[Editor’s Note: The passage below is from Divine Intimacy by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D (Baronius Press), originally published in 1963. Merry Christmas!] God is charity: He has …