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Dec 26, 2025Pope Leo XIV on Friday urged Christians to resist the temptation to treat others as enemies.
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Dec 26, 2025Amid heavy immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, several bishops in the U.S. have recently issued broad dispensations to Catholics in their dioceses.
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Dec 26, 2025A chapel of one form or another memorializing Stephen’s martyrdom has existed at the site since at least the fifth century.
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Dec 25, 2025With the support of the Nigerian government, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military has carried out strikes against elements of ISIS in Nigeria.
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Dec 25, 2025Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa affirmed that “one of the great messages of Christmas” is that God “does not wait for history to improve before entering into it.”
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Dec 25, 2025Pope Leo XIV on Christmas Day deplored the “falsehoods” used to justify wars that leave young people “forced to take up arms” and “sent to their deaths.”
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Dec 25, 2025The Christmas song, written and composed by St. Alphonsus Liguori in the mid-18th century, describes Christ, King and Creator, coming into the world as a poor baby.
Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s Christmas night homily
Dec 24, 2025Pope Leo XIV's full homily at Christmas Mass during the Night in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday.
