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The Blessed Mother and the Child Jesus. / Credit: Zwiebackesser/Shutterstock National Catholic Register, Dec 8, 2025 / 16:58 pm (CNA). One of the Catholic Church’s foremost associations of Mariologists has issued a strongly critical response to Mater Populi Fidelis, a recently published Vatican doctrinal note that has been criticized for its diminution of some long-established…
Spectators gather in Nativity Square during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Bethlehem on Dec. 6, 2025. / Credit: HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 17:39 pm (CNA). For the past two years — while the war in Gaza has been taking place — all Christmas celebrations have been canceled…
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 8, 2025 / 18:09 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump honored the feast of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8, which appears to be the first time an American president formally recognized the Catholic…
Pope Leo XIV prays the Angelus prayer on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV led the Angelus prayer Dec. 8 from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on the occasion of…
null / Credit: chayanuphol/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 8, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Bishop Michael Duca has granted a dispensation from Sunday Mass attendance for immigrants fearing deportation in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, the fourth U.S. diocese to do so. News of the dispensation comes amid heightened presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Pope Leo XIV receives Bishop Pierre Goudreault of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (center), Archbishop Richard Smith of Vancouver (right), and Father Jean Vézina, secretary-general of the Canadian bishops (left), in a Nov. 15, 2025, meeting at which the Holy Father gifted dozens of artifacts that originated with Indigenous peoples of…
Republican Gov. William Lee, pictured in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., in September 2025, should stop all executions and support an end to the death penalty, faith leaders said at a Dec. 8, 2025, press conference hosted by the Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP). / Credit: Saul…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, speaks with members of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) during a Dec. 5, 2025, fundraising dinner to support of Christians in the Holy Land at St. John’s Resort in Plymouth, Michigan. / Credit: Courtesy of Detroit Catholic, photos by Tim Fuller…
Sister Lucia of Fátima, left, and Dr. Branca Pereira Acevedo, her doctor for 15 years. / Credit: Sanctuary of Fatima/ HM Television/Home of the Mother ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). “I was her doctor for her body, but she was my spiritual doctor,” said Dr. Branca Pereira Acevedo while describing…
The 2023 Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), held Sept 25-28 outside of Toronto. / Credit: CCCB/CECC Ottawa, Canada, Dec 8, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and Toronto’s Cardinal Francis Leo are urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to withdraw the Liberal Party’s reported agreement…
