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Spectators gather in Nativity Square during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Bethlehem on Dec. 6, 2025.

Bethlehem lights Christmas tree again while conflict still echoes nearby

The Blessed Mother and the Child Jesus.

Mariologists publish scathing critique of Vatican note on Mary’s titles

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI.

Benedict XVI’s former secretary hopes the pope’s beatification process will open soon

Republican Gov. William Lee, pictured in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., in September 2025, should stop all executions and support an end to the death penalty, faith leaders said at a Dec. 8, 2025, press conference hosted by the Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP).

Tennessee faith leaders call on Gov. Lee to stop executions

Pope Leo XIV receives Bishop Pierre Goudreault of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (center), Archbishop Richard Smith of Vancouver (right), and Father Jean Vézina, secretary-general of the Canadian bishops (left), in a Nov. 15, 2025, meeting at which the Holy Father gifted dozens of artifacts that originated with Indigenous peoples of the North American country. Leo at the meeting donated 62 pieces from the ethnological collections of the Vatican Museums to the Canadian bishops.

Indigenous artifacts from Vatican welcomed in Montreal ceremony

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Baton Rouge Diocese announces Sunday Mass dispensation for migrants fearing deportation

Pope Leo XIV prays the Angelus prayer on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8, 2025.

On solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, pope encourages renewing our ‘yes’ to God

The 2023 Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), held Sept 25-28 outside of Toronto.

Canadian bishops ask prime minister to keep religious-text protection in hate-speech law

Sister Lucia of Fátima, left, and Dr. Branca Pereira Acevedo, her doctor for 15 years.

Fátima visionary Sister Lucia’s doctor shares moving conversion story

When Pope Pius IX declared the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary on Dec. 8, 1854, he had a golden crown added to the mosaic of Mary, Virgin Immaculate, in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica.

What is ‘papal infallibility?’ CNA explains an often-misunderstood Church teaching

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