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Pope Leo XIV holds a figurine of baby Jesus during Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 24, 2025. (OSV News/Guglielmo Mangiapane)

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 ...
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Scourge of Abuse Haunts Women in India’s Kashmir

By UCA News | October 27, 2025
By UCA News Saba Khan* considers her wedding day in 2021 as the worst day of her life. The 28-year-old Muslim woman was born and brought up in Srinagar, the capital of restive Jammu and Kashmir — India’s only Muslim-majority region. A mother of one daughter, she ended her abusive married life with a divorce last year. Within six months of her w...
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The Prison of Anger: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | October 23, 2025
By Maureen Hanahoe, M.M. Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary TimeOctober 26, 2025Sir. 35:12-14, 16-18; 2 Tim. 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14 How do we evaluate the quality of our lives? Is it through our comparison with others and a sense of self- righteousness, or is it through the willingness to accept who we are with honesty and transparency, embracing bot...
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The Risen Christ Brings Joy, Hope Along Life’s Journey, Pope Says

By Catholic News Service | October 22, 2025
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The joy of Christ’s resurrection can repair the widespread sadness and malaise in today’s world, Pope Leo XIV said. “On the paths of the heart, the Risen One walks with us and for us,” the pope said Oct. 22 during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square. “It is the R...
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Catholic Vigils for Immigrants Take Place Across the Country

By OSV News | October 22, 2025
By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — Catholics across the nation are being invited to publicly pray for migrants, with two coast-to-coast days of witness planned amid the Trump administration’s continuing crackdown on unauthorized immigration. “One Church, One Family: Catholic Public Witness for Immigrants” will take plac...
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Attacks on Religious Liberty Increase, Say Cardinal, Papal Foundation

By Catholic News Service | October 21, 2025
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — Religious freedom is not only a fundamental and essential human right, “it is also a pathway to truth and deeper communion with God and neighbor,” said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. However, religious freedom is severely restricted in...
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Bangladeshi Prosecutors Call for ‘Highest Punishment’ for Former PM Sheikh Hasina

By UCA News | October 20, 2025
By UCA News Bangladeshi prosecution lawyers demanded on Oct. 16 that fugitive ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina receive the death penalty in her trial for crimes against humanity. Hasina has defied court orders to return from India, where she fled last year, to face charges of ordering a deadly crackdown in a failed attempt to crush a student-le...
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Use All Doors: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | October 16, 2025
By St. Isidore of Seville International Online Small Christian Community Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary TimeOctober 19, 2025Ex. 17:8-13 | 2 Tim. 3:14-4:2| Luke 18:1-8 Here is a personal witness story.I am 22-year-old Mary Wahome, born and raised in Kenya, and a faithful Catholic. In 2015, my mum passed away and I became the mother to my 7-year-old...
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Chicago Catholics Denounce ICE Tactics Against Immigrants

By OSV News | October 15, 2025
By Simone Orendain, OSV News CHICAGO (OSV News) — Amid ongoing federal immigration enforcement operations and protests in Chicago, Catholic faithful and clergy there are trying to both uphold the human dignity of affected immigrants and protect their rights to worship and receive the sacraments. In a statement sent to OSV News Oct. 14, Cardinal B...
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Hostages Freed and Ceasefire Brings Relief, But Peace in Gaza Seen as Fragile

By OSV News | October 13, 2025
By Paulina Guzik, OSV News (OSV News) — Scenes of joy, relief and tearful welcomes flooded media across the world Oct. 13 as the remaining Israeli hostages were freed from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement. As part of the U.S.-proposed deal, 250 Palestinian prisoners were also released by Israel, w...
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Love for the Poor is Hallmark of Faith, Pope Says in First Exhortation

By OSV News | October 9, 2025
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Many Christians “need to go back and re-read the Gospel” because they have forgotten that faith and love for the poor go hand in hand, Pope Leo XIV said in his first major papal document. “Love for the poor — whatever the form their poverty may take — is the evangelical hallmar...
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If God Wills It: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | October 9, 2025
By Sarah Bueter, MKLM Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary TimeOctober 12, 20252 Kings 5:14-17; Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19 In this week’s readings, those explicitly on the “outside”— the Syrian, the Samaritan, the foreigner — show us that God desires healing for all, and they teach us about a faith that “saves” ...
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