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Pope Leo XIV’s Christmas Message

By OSV News | December 26, 2025

By Pope Leo XIV, OSV News (OSV News) — The following is the full text of the “urbi et orbi” blessing given by Pope Leo XIV on Christmas Dec. 25, 2025. Dear brothers and sisters, “Let us all rejoice in the Lord, for our Savior has been born in the world. Today, true peace has come down to us from heaven” (Entrance Antiphon, Christmas Mass ...

Bishop Michael G. Duca of Baton Rouge, La., speaks from the floor during a Nov. 17, 2021, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. Amid immigration detention sweeps in Louisiana, Bishop Duca issued a dispensation Dec. 4, 2025, from the obligation to attend Mass for those Catholics who are “rightfully afraid to participate in Mass because of their fear.” (OSV News/Bob Roller)

Baton Rouge Bishop Suspends Mass Obligation Amid ICE Crackdown

By OSV News | December 8, 2025

By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — Amid immigration detention sweeps in Louisiana — part of an ongoing nationwide campaign by the Trump administration — Bishop Michael G. Duca of Baton Rouge has issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass for those concerned for their safety. The dispensation, announced in a Dec. 4 statemen...

Maryknoll Sister Ann Hayden (far left) laughs with friends in Nicaragua in 1988. (Maryknoll Mission Archives/Nicaragua)

Second Sunday of Advent: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | December 4, 2025

By Ann Hayden, M.M. Sunday, December 7, 2025Is. 11:1-10 | Rom. 15:4-9| Matthew 3:1-12 Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths: All flesh shall see the salvation of God. — Luke 3:4-6 Pope Leo XIV, in his recent Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te, said “Love for the Lord, then, is one with love for the poor. The same Jesus who te...

Displaced Palestinian children stand in flood water as they shelter at a flooded tent camp during a rainy day in Gaza City Nov. 25, 2025. (OSV News/Mahmoud Issa, Reuters)

Situation in Gaza Remains ‘Critical,’ Catholic Leaders Say

By OSV News | December 3, 2025

By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — As Pope Leo XIV urged in Turkey last week that “the future of humanity is at stake” with ongoing conflict in the Middle East and days after a United Nations Security Council endorsement of a U.S.-backed peace plan, Catholic leaders warn that conditions in Gaza remain grave, especially as winter approac...

Activists take part in a “Walk for Freedom” to protest human trafficking, in Berlin in this Oct. 20, 2018, file photo. (CNS photo/Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters)

Children, Refugees Victimized by AI-Fueled Human Trafficking

By OSV News | December 2, 2025

By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — With human trafficking on the rise globally, the Vatican’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations is highlighting concerns for child victims and refugees — while warning of technological tools used by traffickers to expand their criminal activities. Msgr. Marco Formica, counselor at the Holy See’s ...

Pope Leo XIV shakes hands with Sheikh Ali Kaddour, head of the Alawi Islamic Council in Lebanon during an ecumenical and interreligious meeting in Martyrs’ Square in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 1, 2025. (CNS/Lola Gomez)

Lebanese Have What Is Needed To Build a Future of Peace, Pope Says

By OSV News | December 1, 2025

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service BEIRUT (CNS) — Even in the face of difficulties and the constant threat of war, the young people of Lebanon and the country’s religious leaders have enormous resources that can build a better future for all people, Pope Leo XIV said. “The true opposition to evil is not evil, but love, a love capable of h...

Photo of the bronze statue entitled “Let us Beat Swords into Ploughshares” in the United Nations garden in New York City, New York, by United Nations and licensed CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (United Nations/Flickr/USA)

First Sunday of Advent: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | November 27, 2025

By James H. Kroeger, M.M. Sunday, November 30, 2025Is. 2:1-5 | Rom. 13:11-14| Matt. 24: 37-44 Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. — Matthew 24:42 Our three scripture readings for this first Sunday of Advent overflow with rich imagery that alerts us to be vigilant and make this a truly holy season. It is a ...

Report: Global Poverty, Religious Restrictions, Discrimination Against Women Remain High

By OSV News | November 26, 2025

By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — More than a quarter of the global population still lacks access to seven basic needs identified as fundamental by the late Pope Francis — with close to 60% living in nations with severe restrictions on religious freedom, and more than half of the world’s women living in countries with severe sex-based ...

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, center, Benedictine Abbot Lawrence Stasyszen of St. Gregory’s Abbey in Shawnee, Okla., at right of the archbishop, Benedictine Abbot Philip Anderson of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey in Hulbert in the Diocese of Tulsa, Okla., at left, stand with Deacon Roy Callison and Deacon Craig Victor, altar servers and lectors after the Native American Mass on Nov. 23, 2025, at the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine in Oklahoma City. (OSV News/Chris Porter, Sooner Catholic)

Archbishop Coakley Celebrates Native American Mass at Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine

By OSV News | November 25, 2025

By Sally Linhart / The Sooner Catholic, OSV News OKLAHOMA CITY (OSV News) — Facing east toward the altar of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine, Deacon Roy Callison burned cedar as his wife, Susan, recited the first of the four invocations in the Prayer in the Four Directions, a traditional spiritual practice rooted in Indigenous culture. Using a s...

Metal beds in a hostel room are seen Nov. 18, 2025, after gunmen attacked a government boarding school for girls in Nigeria’s Kebbi state Nov. 17, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, according to police in Kebbi. Four days later an unspecified number of students and teachers were kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s Niger state, adding to a growing number of attacks on Christians in the West African nation. (OSV News/Africa Independent Television via Reuters)

Pope Demands Release of 300 Children Kidnapped in Nigeria

By OSV News | November 24, 2025

By Ngala Killian Chimton, OSV News (OSV News) – During the Nov. 23 Angelus prayer, Pope Leo XIV appealed for the release of over 300 children and teachers abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria. He said he was “deeply saddened to learn of the kidnapping,” mentioning not only Nigeria, but also Cameroon, where six Catholic priests f...

A child in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, stands as police remove migrants from a camp on the banks of the Rio Grande on Nov. 27, 2022. (CNS/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Child King: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | November 20, 2025

By Rick Dixon, MKLM Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the UniverseNovember 23, 20252 Samuel 5:1-3; Psalm 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5; Colossians 1:12-20; Luke 23:35-43 On this feast day of Christ the King, I rush to read the sixth chapter of St. John‘s Gospel, where Jesus withdraws to the mountain alone after a miracle when he knows the crowd is ...

Women look on after a flotilla carrying Indigenous representatives from across Latin America arrived in Belem Nov. 9, 2025, ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP30, in Brazil. A delegation of cardinals, bishops and lay activists gives the Brazil church a strong presence at COP30, taking place Nov. 10-21 in Belém. (OSV News/Adriano Machado, Reuters)

At COP30, Maryknoll Lay Missioner Highlights ‘Moral Crisis’

By UCA News | November 20, 2025

By Umar Manzoor Shah, UCA News In a sea of negotiators, lobbyists, and policy experts at the UN Climate Change Conference, Lisa Sullivan stands out for saying it as it is: “This is no longer an environmental problem. It’s a human problem.” Sullivan, a returned lay missioner now working for the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns in global ad...

People gather for a pro-immigrant prayer vigil outside Delaney Hall, a migrant detention center in Newark, N.J., Oct. 22, 2025. The event was affiliated with the nationwide “One Church, One Family: Catholic Public Witness for Immigrants” initiative that had been organized in response to the Trump administration’s continuing crackdown on unauthorized immigration. A similar event is scheduled for Nov. 13, the feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, patroness of immigrants. (OSV News/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Pope Calls Treatment of Immigrants in US ‘Extremely Disrespectful’

By OSV News | November 19, 2025

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Insisting that the dignity of all people, including immigrants, must be respected, Pope Leo XIV asked U.S. Catholics and “people of goodwill” to read and listen to the U.S. bishops’ recent pastoral message on the topic. “When people are living good lives — and many of them (in ...

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