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Pope Leo XIV: Memento mori
Isabella H. de Carvalho, Vatican News Friday, December 12, 2025 During his recent General Audience, Pope Leo XIV spoke about existential questions of how human beings view death and invited us to ponder on the end of life and discover the power…
White House rejects call from pro-life group to fire FDA Commissioner
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which works to elect pro-life candidates to public office, was among the pro-life groups that criticized U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary and called for him to be fired over his…
Citing papal teaching, Poland bans Communist Party over totalitarian ideology
Bryan Lawrence Gonsalves, Catholic News Agency Thursday, December 11, 2025 Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has unanimously ruled that the Communist Party of Poland, founded in 2002, is incompatible with the nation’s 1997 constitution, citing…
Trump becomes first U.S. president to honor the Immaculate Conception
Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency Wednesday, December 10, 2025 President Donald Trump honored the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Monday, which appears to be the first time an American president formally recognized the Catholic holy…
N.Y. Archdiocese will negotiate sex-abuse settlement for 1,300 accusers
Liam Stack, New York Times Wednesday, December 10, 2025 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York says it was raising at least $300 million to negotiate a settlement that would benefit roughly 1,300 people who have said they were sexually…
Pope: Believe as Mary believed: Say ‘yes’ to God
On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Leo encouraged the faithful to believe in God as the Blessed Virgin Mary did and thus give “generous assent to the mission to which the Lord calls us.” He reminded the crowd that Mary was…
Baton Rouge bishop suspends Mass obligation due to ICE crackdown
Amid immigration detention sweeps in Louisiana (part of an ongoing nationwide campaign by the Trump administration), Bishop Michael G. Duca of Baton Rouge has issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass for those concerned for their…
U.S. to restrict visas for Nigerians involved in violence against Christians
The United States will restrict visas for Nigerians and their family members involved in mass killings and violence against Christians in the West African country, the U.S. State Department said recently. The attacks on the community are part of…
Will Leo revisit Fulton J. Sheen’s path to sainthood?
Some cases for sainthood move ahead with great speed, like that of St. Carlo Acutis, who was made Venerable in 2015 and canonized earlier this year. Others have experienced unorthodox setbacks, such as the cause of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen,…
Vatican commission says no to female diaconate, though judgment ‘not definitive’
A report presenting the results of the so-called Petrocchi Commission’s work has been released. It rules out admitting women to the diaconate, understood as a degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders, but says that it is not currently possible “to…