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Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, receives flowers from Rohingya during his visit to Cox’s Bazar, considered the world’s largest refugee camp, on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2025.

Cardinal Czerny brings message of hope to Rohingya in Bangladesh

Nov 9, 2025

By Sumon Corraya

Cardinal Michael Czerny visited Bangladesh’s displaced Catholics and Rohingya, calling for greater global solidarity with vulnerable communities. Read more

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Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong activist and Catholic Jimmy Lai, speaks with EWTN News President Montse Alvarado on “EWTN News Nightly” on Dec. 8, 2025.

Daughter of political prisoner Jimmy Lai speaks out for the first time

Traces of the first chapel where the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was first kept within the Old Parish of the Indians.

Remnants of chapel where image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was originally kept still exist

A painting of Franciscan missionary Pedro de Gante with Juan Diego, whom the friar baptized along with Diego’s wife in 1525.

Meet the Franciscan friar who baptized St. Juan Diego

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Trump honors Mary’s ‘freedom from original sin’ in Immaculate Conception message

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

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