Disability advocates sue Delaware over allegedly ‘discriminatory’ assisted suicide law  — By: Catholic News Agency

“For patients with serious disabilities, this law will put us at risk of deadly discrimination,” says Daniese McMullin-Powell, a polio survivor who has used a wheelchair for most of her life. / Credit: Institute for Patients’ Rights CNA Staff, Dec 10, 2025 / 06:10 am (CNA). Several disability and patient advocacy groups filed a lawsuit…

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‘Persecuted and thriving’: Catholic priest on resilience of Christians in Nigeria — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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Citing papal teaching, Poland bans Communist Party over totalitarian ideology — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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Pope Leo XIV criticizes transhumanism: ‘Death is not opposed to life’ — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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Sacred Movement in Hispanic Philippines — By: OnePeterFive

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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