The Holy Door of St. Mary Major Basilica, one of five in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, was the first to close.
The bishop of a war-torn Sudanese diocese addressed the people of God in the midst of their suffering and the hope still carried by the celebration of Christmas.
President Donald Trump vowed that the United States would wage more military strikes if the ongoing persecution of Christians persists in the country.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says her Catholic faith “grounds her” and gives her “perspective.”
Pope Leo XIV on Friday urged Christians to resist the temptation to treat others as enemies.
Amid heavy immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, several bishops in the U.S. have recently issued broad dispensations to Catholics in their dioceses.
With the support of the Nigerian government, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military has carried out strikes against elements of ISIS in Nigeria.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa affirmed that “one of the great messages of Christmas” is that God “does not wait for history to improve before entering into it.”
Pope Leo XIV has welcomed and greeted a plethora of babies at the Vatican since his election on May 8.
In his first Christmas “urbi et orbi” message as pope, Leo XIV urged the world to embrace “responsibility” as the sure way to peace.
Pope Leo XIV on Christmas Day deplored the “falsehoods” used to justify wars that leave young people “forced to take up arms” and “sent to their deaths.”
The Christmas song, written and composed by St. Alphonsus Liguori in the mid-18th century, describes Christ, King and Creator, coming into the world as a poor baby.