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Knock Shrine event highlights urgent call to revive First Saturdays practice

December 9, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop John Keenan speaks at the First Saturdays Conference in Knock, Ireland, on Dec. 6, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of First Saturdays Conference

Dublin, Ireland, Dec 9, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
At Knock Shrine on Saturday, Dec. 6, hundreds … […]

At a French shrine for the dead, a quiet revival among the living

December 9, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Pilgrims gather for Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon in Normandy, France, on Nov. 16, 2025, during the annual “Heaven’s Pilgrimage,” dedicated to prayer for the souls in purgatory. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Shrine of Our Lady o… […]

Daughter of political prisoner Jimmy Lai speaks out for the first time

December 9, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong activist and Catholic Jimmy Lai, speaks with EWTN News President Montse Alvarado on “EWTN News Nightly” on Dec. 8, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 9, 202… […]

Remnants of chapel where image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was originally kept still exist

December 9, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Traces of the first chapel where the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was first kept within the Old Parish of the Indians. / Credit: EWTN News

Puebla, Mexico, Dec 9, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA).
The story of St. Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe beg… […]

Bethlehem lights Christmas tree again while conflict still echoes nearby

December 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

CNA Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 17:39 pm For the past two years — while the war in Gaza has been taking place — all Christmas celebrations have been canceled in Bethlehem, the town where […]

Mariologists publish scathing critique of Vatican note on Mary’s titles

December 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

National Catholic Register, Dec 8, 2025 / 16:58 pm 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 […]

Tennessee faith leaders call on Gov. Lee to stop executions

December 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

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 hoste… […]

Indigenous artifacts from Vatican welcomed in Montreal ceremony

December 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

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 Can… […]

Baton Rouge Diocese announces Sunday Mass dispensation for migrants fearing deportation

December 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

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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 fo… […]

Canadian bishops ask prime minister to keep religious-text protection in hate-speech law

December 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

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 Toront… […]

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