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Diocese of Palm Beach Palm Beach Bishop-elect Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez Bishop-elect Rodriguez is currently a priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn, where he serves at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Queens. ... read more

By Edward Pentin London, England, Dec 19, 2025 / 09:26 am Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Richard Moth, a former bishop of Britain’s military ordinariate, as the 12th archbishop of Westminster, succeeding Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who is retiring at the age of 80.  A canon lawyer, Moth, 67, ... read more

Bishop Richard Moth, a former bishop of Britain’s military ordinariate, was appointed as the 12th archbishop of Westminster on Dec. 19, 2025. / Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) London, England, Dec 19, 2025 / 09:26 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Richard Moth, a former bishop of Britain’s military ordinariate, as ... read more

Aaron Lynett Bishop Edward Scharfenberger speaks to members of the media following the resignation of Bishop Richard Malone, during a press conference at the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo on Dec. 4, 2019, in Buffalo, New York. The filing follows a civil trial in which a jury found the former bishop and other officials personally ... read more

When the first child of any parent is born, there is great expectancy and anticipation that both parents and the entire family experience, as the joy that the first child brings to both parents and the extended family is shared. Specifically, the joy I reference can be described as an act of faith, because after ... read more

Caesarius of Heisterbach (d. 1240) was one of the most popular hagiographers of the Middle Ages. The prior of the Cistercian Heisterbach Abbey, he’s most famous for his Dialogue on Miracles, which was rivaled only by the Golden Legend in popularity. Over the course of a dozen thematic books, Caesarius tells hundreds of miracle stories ... read more

The Shepherd of Hermas is an inspiring combination of instructions for living the Christian life and an apocalyptic vision of the saved and the damned. At the most basic level, it is “an uncomplicated guide for repentance and moral living that will lead mankind to justification in the sight of God.” Using parables and allegories, ... read more

Eight-year-old Yamen Abu Hilal lies on a bed as a woman sits beside him in a hospital room in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 24, 2025. His condition has sharply worsened amid the collapse of Gaza’s health care system, which has been unable to provide diagnostic tools, medication, or equipment since no medical ... read more

Eight-year-old Yamen Abu Hilal lies on a bed as a woman sits beside him in a hospital room in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 24, 2025. His condition has sharply worsened amid the collapse of Gaza’s health care system, which has been unable to provide diagnostic tools, medication, or equipment since no ... read more

Palm Beach Bishop-elect Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez / Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of Palm Beach CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA). The Holy See said on Dec. 19 that Pope Leo XIV had made two new episcopal appointments in the United States, with the Vatican announcing a new bishop ... read more

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 07:30 am The Holy See said on Dec. 19 that Pope Leo XIV had made two new episcopal appointments in the United States, with the Vatican announcing a new bishop for the Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida, as well as ... read more

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 07:30 am The Holy See said on Dec. 19 that Pope Leo XIV had made two new episcopal appointments in the United States, with the Vatican announcing a new bishop for the Diocese of Palm Beach as well as an ... read more

Moscow – On December 16, the conference entitled “Italy, Vatican, Catholicism: 19th-21st Centuries” was held in Moscow at the Institute of Scientific Information of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The event, the seventh meeting of the Association of Italianists of Russia, featured 14 presentations, eleven by Russian scholars and three by Italian ... read more

Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV speaks to patients and caregivers at the De La Croix Hospital in Jal el Dib, Lebanon, on Dec. 2, 2025. In his reflection, Leo XIV included an explicit warning against the religious instrumentalization of violence. ... read more

Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV holds up a tennis racket given to him by children of the Pope Paul VI Pontifical School in Castel Gandolfo on Dec. 16, 2025. Pope Leo delivered an impromptu greeting to the children, who sang Christmas carols in several languages for him. ... read more