Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered for his Wednesday general audience on Dec. 31, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. | Credit: Vatican Media Dec 31, 2025 / 08:08 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV used the Vatican’s final general audience of 2025 on Wednesday to invite Catholics to look back on the past…
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There is supernatural power in suffering beyond our understanding. But the fear of suffering has become a weapon in the devil’s toolbox to increasingly drive state-abetted suicide as an improvement on God’s plan. On December 12, Illinois became the 12th state to enact legislation to provide terminally ill patients with an exit ramp from life…
With all the church closings, clustering, and twinning, alongside the seemingly endless amount of money in terms of payouts to victims of clerical and religious abuse, it is almost easy to become disillusioned with the leadership of some—many—of the dioceses in the United States at present. However, occasionally a Local Ordinary will do something so…
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Begum Khaleda Zia, former Bangladesh prime minister and chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in 2010 at the Diploma Engineers Institute, Dhaka. | Credit: Mohammed Tawsif Salam, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dec 30, 2025 / 19:22 pm (CNA). Catholic leaders in Bangladesh are mourning the death of Begum Khaleda Zia, an alumna of Catholic-run…
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Family Day celebrations at St. Austin’s Msongari Parish. | Credit: St Austin’s Msongari Communications Dec 30, 2025 / 13:34 pm (CNA). Parishioners of St. Austin’s Msongari Parish, Kenya’s oldest inland Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Nairobi, have been told to find belonging in small groups within the parish — such as small Christian communities,…
