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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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Bishop Seitz Shares Migrants’ Stories with Pope

By OSV News | October 8, 2025
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Many immigrants in the United States today are living with the same fear people experienced under the “tyrannical” communist governments of the past, said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas. “We have made people who have fled for their lives now live in even greater fear” tha...
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Cardinal Welcomes Gaza Ceasefire Talks, Urges Perseverance

By OSV News | October 7, 2025
By Judith Sudilovsky, OSV News JERUSALEM (OSV News) — As indirect ceasefire talks began in Egypt between Israel and Hamas Oct. 6 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt — aimed at finalizing a ceasefire deal based on a proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump — the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem lauded it as an “important and long-awaited first step.” N...
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Pope Celebrates a Single Mass for Jubilees of Missions and Migrants

By OSV News | October 6, 2025
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The joint celebration of the Jubilee of Migrants and the Jubilee of the Missions is an opportunity to remind all Catholics that the duty to welcome and assist migrants is also part of each person’s obligation to share God’s love, Pope Leo XIV said. “Brothers and sisters, today a ne...
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Catholic Groups Serving the Poor Urge End to Government Shutdown

By OSV News | October 2, 2025
By Kate Scanlon, OSV News WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Congressional lawmakers failed to pass legislation to fund the federal government, resulting in a federal government shutdown at the end of September. Catholic groups that serve the poor urged lawmakers to end gridlock. A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass a budget or if that b...
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To Love as God Loves Us: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | October 2, 2025
By Leonor Montiel, M.M. Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary TimeOctober 5, 2025Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4; Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14; Luke 17:5-10 The first reading and the Gospel for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time provide us a glimpse of the reality of the people at the time. The first reading mentions violence, destruction, discor...
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Cardinal McElroy Calls for Solidarity with Migrants Lacking Legal Status

By Catholic News Agency | October 1, 2025
By Madalaine Elhabbal, Catholic News Agency (CNA) Cardinal Robert McElroy delivered a homily on Sunday urging Catholics to “embrace in a sustained, unwavering, prophetic, and compassionate way” migrants to the U.S. at a Mass for the 11th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. “For the past 110 years, Mass has been celebrated throughout our count...
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Catholics Pray For an End to Raids at LA Immigration Mass

By OSV News | September 30, 2025
By Mike Cisneros, Theresa Cisneros / Angelus News, OSV News LOS ANGELES (OSV News) — When Antonio Luna was 9 years old in the 1970s, his mother, out of desperation, sent him along with two brothers and two sisters from Mexico to the United States after his father had died. Five years later, as a teenager coming home from junior high, he returned ...
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Poverty and Violence Affect Women and Girls, Says Vatican to UN

By OSV News | September 29, 2025
By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — Thirty years after a landmark international document safeguarding women’s dignity, much remains to be done to ensure the well-being of women and girls worldwide, said a top Vatican diplomat. On Sept. 22, Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher delivered an address at the United Nations’ New York headquarters duri...
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Pope Leo XIV: Migrants and Refugees Embody Hope and Joy

By OSV News | September 25, 2025
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With their courage and tenacity in the pursuit of happiness, migrants and refugees are “messengers of hope,” Pope Leo XIV said. “Their courage and tenacity bear heroic testimony to a faith that sees beyond what our eyes can see and gives them the strength to defy death on the variou...
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Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Maryknoll Reflection

By Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns | September 25, 2025
By Frank Breen, M.M. Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary TimeSeptember 28, 2025Amos 6:1a, 4-7, 1 Timothy 6:11-1, Luke 16:19-31 Today’s Gospel from Saint Luke, about the rich man and Lazarus the poor man, is one of many passages that highlight a major thematic issue in Luke, namely the relationship between wealth and poverty. The Gospels in general do...
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Maryknoll COP30 Webinar Prepares for Climate Summit

By OSV News | September 24, 2025
By Marietha Góngora V., OSV News (OSV News) — With the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP30, set for November in Belém, Brazil, Catholic leaders are raising their voices ahead of the global climate summit. A Sept. 18 webinar held by the Maryknoll Office of Global Concern addressed the climate priorities of the peoples of the Global Sou...
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‘The Cabrini Pledge’ Calls Faithful to be Keepers of Hope for Migrants and Refugees

By OSV News | September 23, 2025
By Marietha Góngora V., OSV News (OSV News) — At the start of National Migration Week, taking place this year Sept. 22-28, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration invited the faithful to join “The Cabrini Pledge” and be guardians of hope for migrants and refugees. Named after St. Frances Xavier Cabri...
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