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2025: The Year of Violent Absurdities
(Image: Annie Spratt / Unsplash.com) In the past week or so, as I write this, the President of the United States has called a reporter “piggy,” the Governor of Minnesota …
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Trump Honors Mary’s ‘Freedom From Original Sin’ in Immaculate Conception Message
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington. The presidential statement recognized the role Mary played in the salvation of humanity. The statement does, however, contain …
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Boston-Area Pastor Refuses to Remove Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Seeks Meeting With Archbishop
Matthew McDonaldA Nativity display with anti-ICE messaging is seen Friday outside St. Susanna Church in Dedham, Massachusetts. The archdiocese directed the Dedham parish to remove the display, but the pastor …
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On Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Encourages Renewing Our ‘Yes’ to God
Pope Leo XIV prays the Angelus prayer on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8, 2025. Pope Leo, in his address to the faithful, said, ‘The Lord has …
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Benedict XVI’s former secretary hopes the pope’s beatification process will open soon
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, author of “Who Believes Is Not Alone: My Life Beside Benedict XVI,” in an undated photo. (Photo: Daniel Ibañez – EWTN) ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 8, 2025 …
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Trump honors Mary’s ‘freedom from original sin’ in Immaculate Conception message
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 8, 2025 / 18:09 pm President Donald Trump honored the feast of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8, which appears to be the …
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Court settlement approved for New Orleans Archdiocese to pay hundreds of clergy abuse victims
The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved Dec. 8 by a federal judge that follows …
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Bethlehem lights Christmas tree again while conflict still echoes nearby
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 17:39 pm For the past two years — while the war in Gaza has been taking place — all Christmas …
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Boston Archdiocese wants ICE message gone from parish’s outdoor Nativity scene
St. Susanna Church’s “politically divisive display” goes against the Catholic Church’s canonical norms on the use of sacred objects, according to a spokesperson from the archdiocese.
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Mariologists publish scathing critique of Vatican note on Mary’s titles
The Blessed Mother and the Child Jesus. / Credit: Zwiebackesser/Shutterstock National Catholic Register, Dec 8, 2025 / 16:58 pm (CNA). One of the Catholic Church’s foremost associations of Mariologists has …