Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the Angelus on December 7, 2025. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 7, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said his apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon showed that “peace is possible,” pointing to renewed steps toward…
Pope Leo XIV receives an electric lawn mower from Czech manufacturer Swardman during a general audience in mid-November 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Swardman Rome Newsroom, Dec 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Vatican’s gardeners have a new tool for maintaining the papal grounds: a custom-designed electric lawn mower bearing the Holy See’s…
[” Annunciation ,” Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1898] Today was a good day. We had been praying over an afflicted person for five years. Her mother was a witch and raised her on cocaine and spells. As a young woman, she had been trafficked, abused, and raped. Not surprising, she was one of the most…
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The “Sons of Thunder” vocations club at St. Bartholomew Church in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Matthew Gonzalez CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A little over a year ago, Father Matthew Gonzalez, a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, had the idea to create…
A still from “Trailblazers of Faith: The Legacy of African American Catholics,” which tells the inspiring story of how African Americans found a home in Catholicism without abandoning their identity or culture. Those pictured are the African Americans currently on the path to sainthood: Venerable Henriette DeLille, Julia Greeley, Father Augustus Tolton, Mother Mary Lange,…
Above: the traditional Baile de los Seises in Spain for the Immaculate Conception. The Immaculate Conception is a dogma of the faith stating that Mary was conceived sinless in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne. While this truth has been believed since the early times of the Church, it was not until December 8,…
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