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Pope Leo XIV venerates a statue of the Child Jesus during the celebration of Christmas Mass during the Night in St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 24, 2025.

Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s Christmas night homily

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Christmas Mass during the Night in a packed St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 24, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV on Christmas night: Make room for others

Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice celebrates Mass with homeless and people in need at the Archdiocesan Charity in Košice, Slovakia, during a traditional Christmas gathering in December 2025.

Christmas reversed in Slovakia: Why the homeless gave this archbishop a gift

Field visit in the disaster zone in December 2025: Father Fredy Rante Taruk (executive director of Caritas Indonesia), and Bishop Antonius Subianto Bunjamin, OSC, president of the Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia.

Catholic Church responds to deadly Indonesia floods as leaders warn of environmental crisis

Christmas recital at the Sacred Hearts School in Kfardebian, Lebanon.

Christmas recital in Lebanon aims for Guinness World Record

Olive Scout Troop Christmas Carnival in Old Damascus, 2025.

Syria celebrates Christmas with hope amid lingering security fears

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Religious sisters offer abortion clinic workers Christmas cards with resources and prayers

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the recitation of the Angelus on Dec. 21, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV revives tradition during first Christmas of his pontificate

A variety of fish dishes served on Christmas Eve.

Where does the ‘Feast of the 7 Fishes’ Christmas Eve tradition come from?

After delaying restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass for three months, Bishop Michael Martin said in a Sept. 26, 2025, letter that the Chapel of the Little Flower in the St. Therese Parish in Mooresville, North Carolina, which was recently renovated by the diocese and can seat just over 350 people, will have two Masses each Sunday and on holy days of obligation,

‘Everybody’s had it’: Backlash to Charlotte bishop’s ban of altar rails, kneelers

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