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Caylo Seals Surprise guest Nicki Minaj is interviewed by Erika Kirk on the final day of Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference at the Phoenix Convention Center on Dec. 21, 2025, in Phoenix. The pop queen and rap mogul, and Christian revert, is using her voice for the voiceless. ... read more

Pope Leo XIV appointed Monsignor James A. Misko, a priest of the Diocese of Austin, Texas, as the next bishop of Tucson, Arizona, on Dec. 22, 2025. / Credit: Diocese of Austin Vatican City, Dec 22, 2025 / 09:58 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has appointed Monsignor James A. Misko, a priest of ... read more

Bishop’s mitre. / Credit: godongphoto/Shutterstock Vatican City, Dec 22, 2025 / 09:58 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has appointed Monsignor James A. Misko, a priest of the Diocese of Austin, Texas, as the next bishop of Tucson, Arizona.The Holy See Press Office publicized the appointment at the Vatican, and it was also ... read more

Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV addresses officials of the Roman Curia at the Vatican on December 22, 2025. The Pope warned that communion within the Church requires ongoing conversion, especially when tensions arise in workplaces and debates about doctrine and practice. ... read more

Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. Intentions include mental health issues, incurable diseases, and more. ... read more

At a time when so much pressure and so many demands are placed on priests, they should find support, freedom and relief in recognizing the gifts of laypeople and collaborating with them, Pope Leo XIV wrote in an apostolic letter marking the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's decrees on the priesthood.  ... read more

Faith leaders and religious advocates in New Jersey are calling for accountability and compassion following the death of a 41-year-old Haitian man after a reported medical emergency while he was detained at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention facility in Newark. ... read more

Pope Leo XIV urged Vatican cardinals on Monday to put their ambitions of power and personal interests aside, as he followed in Pope Francis' footsteps and used a Christmas greeting to gently criticize his closest collaborators. ... read more

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 the argument line-by-line and exposes the claim as a classic “pious little legalism.” Jimmy quotes parts of the General Instruction that Fr. Casey never mentioned ... read more

Martin Barillas The Christmas market underway on Dec. 14. The scene was festive and inviting ... read more

At 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 22 and Dec. 23 in Sherborn, Massachusetts, it’s show time. The Massachusetts family that founded it is calling it quits, but is also willing to help someone else run it. ... read more

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem concluded a three-day pastoral visit yesterday and vowed to rebuild. “We will rebuild—our schools, our houses, and our life,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, said at Gaza’s sole Catholic parish on the first day of his visit. Later during the visit, he celebrated Mass and preached: We are in ... read more

Pope Francis has named Father Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez, the pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Corona, New York, as the new bishop of Palm Beach, Florida. ... read more

Pope Leo XIV made an unexpected visit to the Italian senate library on December 18. There, he viewed the Borso d’Este Bible, a 15th-century Bible typically kept in Modena, Italy, but now on loan to the Senate. ... read more

The Preacher of the Papal Household preached his third and final weekly Advent sermon in Paul VI Audience Hall on December 19, in the presence of Pope Leo, the Roman Curia, and staff of the Vatican City State and of the Vicariate of Rome. The title of Father Roberto Pasolini’s sermon was “The Universality ... read more