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Father Maurice Emelu, now a U.S. citizen and founder of Gratia Vobis Ministries, told EWTN Germany recently that faith in Nigeria has the extraordinary ability to blossom “in harsh soil.” / Credit: Christian Peschken/EWTN Germany ACI Africa, Dec 10, 2025 / 08:20 am (CNA). Christians in Nigeria continue to demonstrate resilience and vitality amid violent…
Dany Elachi, a Sydney father who advocated for Australia’s social media ban, and his family. / Credit: Courtesy of Dany Elachi CNA Staff, Dec 10, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). With the rollout of a novel online safety law that prevents children under 16 from accessing social media, Catholics in Australia are hoping for freer…
Entrance to the building of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal / Credit: Adrian Grycuk / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0 pl) EWTN News, Dec 10, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal unanimously ruled Dec. 3 that the Communist Party of Poland (KPP), founded in 2002, is incompatible with the nation’s 1997 constitution, citing papal encyclicals…
Pope Leo XIV uses a tablet to navigate the website of the new digital version of the Vatican’s Pontifical Yearbook, known as the “Annuario Pontificio” in Italian. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Dec 10, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). The Vatican this week launched the first-ever digital version of its annual directory, creating an…
Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square during a Jubilee audience on Nov. 22, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Dec 10, 2025 / 11:21 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday rejected technological promises to indefinitely prolong human existence — such as those proposed by “transhumanism”— and said the resurrection of…
Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Dogmatic Bull of Pope Pius IX. Both in her Offices and in the most holy Liturgy the Church hath been accustomed to apply to the creation of Mary the language in which the…
Above: Basco, Basco, Philippines in February 2020. In Panunuluyan, A Preparatory Novena for Christmas, Fr. Fidel Ferrer, FSSPX, explains the nature of the tradition as a preparatory novena for Christmas linked with other Hispanic traditions such as the Misas de Aguinaldo/ Misa de Gallo—a novena of votive dawn Masses (December 16-24), expressing joyful expectation of…
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The Holy House of Our Lady in the Shrine of Loreto. / Credit: Tatiana Dyuvbanova/Shutterstock Loreto, Italy, Dec 10, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). What do Galileo, Mozart, Descartes, Cervantes, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux have in common? They all traveled hundreds of miles to step inside the Virgin Mary’s house, which is preserved inside…
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