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Conductor Riccardo Muti has been awarded the 2025 Ratzinger Prize.

Pope to give 2025 Ratzinger Prize to conductor Riccardo Muti at Christmas concert

Nov 25, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

Riccardo Muti will conduct a concert at the Vatican in Pope Leo XIV’s honor on Dec. 12. Read more

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Chilean president-elect José Antonio Kast.

Chile elects conservative for president, defeating Communist Party opponent

Religious sisters show their support for the Little Sisters of the Poor outside the Supreme Court, where oral arguments were heard on March 23, 2016, in the Zubik v. Burwell case against the HHS mandate.

Little Sisters of the Poor file another appeal over contraception mandate

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United Airlines settles suit over flight attendant’s expression of Catholic beliefs

Pope Leo admires the Nativity scene that was made in Costa Rica.

Pope thankful for pro-life Nativity scene that ‘represents a life preserved from abortion’

Bishop Evelio Menjivar speaks with “EWTN News in Depth” on Friday, March 14, 2025.

‘Our Lady of Guadalupe is the mother of all’: DC pilgrimage highlights value of migrants

The Eucharist is displayed in a monstrance in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City before a Eucharistic procession on Oct. 15, 2024.

Pew survey sheds light on characteristics of U.S. Catholic population

A residence hall at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Bishop of Providence issues statement after shooting at Brown University

Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan celebrates Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Dagupan City, on Dec. 13, 2025.

Filipino bishops oppose nuclear power plant plan

The coffin of Cardinal Josef Beran is carried by a horse-drawn carriage toward St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague on April 21, 2018. The cardinal’s remains were repatriated to his homeland 49 years after his death in exile in Rome.

Czech prosecutor seeks justice for cardinal persecuted by Nazis and communists

Daughters of Charity Congregation in Cuba.

Consecrated life perseveres in Cuba despite a lack of vocations

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