Pope Leo XIV celebrates Christmas Mass during the Night in a packed St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Vatican City, Dec 24, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV, at Christmas Mass during the Night, said Christ’s birth brings light into the world’s darkness — and where the human…
Pope Leo XIV venerates a statue of the Child Jesus during the celebration of Christmas Mass during the Night in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Vatican City, Dec 24, 2025 / 17:31 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV celebrated Christmas Mass during the Night in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday….
Above: the Rockefeller Christmas Tree, 1931. I have spent Christmas in many places in my time, and there are many more in which I would like to spend it. Dom Guéranger, in his coverage of the feast in the Liturgical Year, declares that “There are three places on this earth of ours which we should…
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Field visit in the disaster zone in December 2025: Father Fredy Rante Taruk (executive director of Caritas Indonesia), and Bishop Antonius Subianto Bunjamin, OSC, president of the Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia. / Credit: Caritas Indonesia EWTN News, Dec 24, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). After deadly floods and landslides left millions affected across Sumatra, the…
Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice celebrates Mass with homeless and people in need at the Archdiocesan Charity in Košice, Slovakia, during a traditional Christmas gathering in December 2025. / Credit: Archdiocesan Charity of Košice EWTN News, Dec 24, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, Slovakia, found a special gift under the…
Christmas recital at the Sacred Hearts School in Kfardebian, Lebanon. / Credit: Roumi El Hab ACI MENA, Dec 24, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). With a rhythm of hymns carrying prayer and hopes for the nation, a group in Lebanon has launched an exceptional event aspiring to make history: a continuous Christmas hymn recital lasting…
At the first stroke of midnight on December 25th, the Church in her Sacred liturgy bursts forth in joyous celebration for the birth of the God-Man, Jesus Christ, who is born of the Virgin Mary. The virgin birth occurs nine months after His conception in Her womb when God united His divinity with our humanity….
[” Light of the World ,” William Holman Hunt, 1851-1854; Jesus is knocking on our door and asks to be let in. The door is overgrown and has not been opened in a long time. ] I just returned to the big city after being away for several weeks. I went directly to a big…
Above: the Northern Lights in Iceland. When it comes to depicting Paradise and the state before Adam and Eve committed original sin, the paintings of recent centuries are many times laughable—when they are not simply scandalous. Even the most famous Italian masters seem unable to move beyond dubious nudes, a snake with legs, and some…
