Archive for November 30, 2025

Advent candles.?w=200&h=150

By CNA Staff

Advent: What is it and how should it be celebrated?

Need a refresher on Advent? Here’s some info that can help you live a great Advent this year. Read more

Pope Leo XIV meets with Armenian Patriarch Sahak II Mashalian at the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 30, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Elias Turk

UPDATED: Pope Leo XIV honors ‘courageous Christian witness of the Armenian people’ in Istanbul

Pope Leo XIV dedicated the final morning of his visit to Turkey on Sunday to strengthening ties with the Armenian... Read more

Scenes of David as shepherd defending his flock from a lion and a bear at the base of the Tickhill Psalter’s Tree of Jesse.?w=200&h=150

By Garan Santicola

PHOTOS: Tickhill Psalter’s Jesse Tree shines in Morgan Library’s Advent exhibit

A full-page Jesse Tree introduces the Psalms in the Tickhill Psalter, a 14th-century illuminated manuscript on view through Advent and... Read more

Pope Leo XIV arrives in Lebanon on November 30, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Elias Turk

Pope Leo XIV arrives in Lebanon, bringing a message of peace to a nation scarred by war

The sky over Lebanon opened Sunday not to warplanes but to the aircraft carrying Pope Leo XIV. Read more

Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters during his flight to Lebanon on Nov. 30, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Elias Turk

Pope Leo says Erdogan talks focused on Gaza and Ukraine, sees Turkish role in peace efforts

Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that he discussed both the Gaza war and the conflict in Ukraine directly with Turkish... Read more

Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on Nov. 30, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Elias Turk

Pope Leo XIV calls Lebanon to tenacity, hope, and reconciliation

Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon’s leaders to embrace tenacity, dialogue, and a renewed commitment to the common good during an... Read more

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Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest.

Former Maronite priest still presenting himself as a cleric, Denver Archdiocese warns

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Leo XIV eliminates commission for donations to Holy See created by Pope Francis

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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Catholic bishops back Trump’s removal of gender ideology in refugee forms

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol.

Dozens of Congress members urge court to allow Ten Commandments display in public schools

Bishop Michael Fisher outside the meeting hall during the 2019 USCCB General Assembly, June 12, 2019.

Buffalo bishop will allow faithful to meet at parishes to oppose closures, mergers

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

Pope Francis receives the bishops of England and Wales for their ad limina visit at the Vatican, Sept. 28, 2018.

Did leak in England suggest broader shift in Vatican policy on the Latin Mass?

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Archbishop Broglio: Drug cartels must be stopped, but not with ‘violence outside the law’

Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee.

Discalced Carmelites prepare to celebrate jubilee year of St. John of the Cross

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