The Trump administration has followed through on an earlier warning to use military force to protect Nigerian Christians if the Nigerian government failed to do so. On Christmas Eve, the U.S. military bombed ISIS targets […]
Vatican City, Dec 26, 2025 / 07:17 am Pope Leo XIV on Friday urged Christians to resist the temptation to treat others as enemies, saying the mystery of Christmas calls believers to recognize the God-given […]
CNA Staff, Dec 26, 2025 / 06:00 am Amid heavy immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, several bishops in the U.S. have recently issued broad dispensations to Catholics in their dioceses, allowing them to refrain […]
CNA Staff, Dec 26, 2025 / 04:00 am If “Good King Wenceslas” is one of the Christmas hymns you look forward to each year, you probably know which saint is celebrated today — St. Stephen, the first person to […]
We keep things in discreet categories in our culture. Religion too often remains within the church’s walls, kept apart from the forces that drive society. That’s a large reason why we have secularized the festivity […]
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With the support of the Nigerian government, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military has carried out strikes against elements of ISIS in Nigeria that “have been … […]
As the Christmas season begins, the Catholic community of Kontagora Diocese in Nigeria has a double reason to celebrate. On Monday, December 22nd, they received what the Local Ordinary of the Diocese, Bishop Bulus Dauwa […]
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 25, 2025 / 16:07 pm At the Christmas Eve Mass celebrated in Bethlehem, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, affirmed that “one of the great messages of Christmas” is […]
Denver, Colorado, Dec 25, 2025 / 15:00 pm The Catholic calendar has several ways to divide the Christmas season. The Church’s Western liturgical tradition sees Christmas as an octave, an eight-day celebration of the birth of […]
Editor’s note: This homily was preached, in slightly different form, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan, on Christmas 2025. ————- Let me set the stage for our reflection on this glorious Solemnity of […]
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