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Pope Leo XIV's Top 5 Moments of 2025.....

Posted on 12/30/2025 09:00 AM (New Advent)

"Lebanon needed this embrace." The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image of Pope Leo XIV consoling a weeping Lebanese woman. I couldn't help thinking "perhaps the whole world needed it, and needs this pope, for this time." Leo's papacy, of nine months gestation, has revealed itself slowly...

Catholic Human Rights Activist Jimmy Lai Convicted by Chinese Communist Authorities, Faces Life in Prison...

Posted on 12/30/2025 09:00 AM (New Advent)

Jimmy Lai, the Catholic human rights advocate whose long-running national security trial in China has drawn criticism and charges of persecution, was found guilty on Dec. 15 of multiple violations of China’s national security laws, bringing an end to several years of what advocates have described as a politically motivated show trial against a popular Hong Kong publisher.

The Charity of Jane Austen...

Posted on 12/30/2025 09:00 AM (New Advent)

It was Newman himself who observed in one of his most celebrated sermons that “one little deed, done against natural inclination for God’s sake” is a stronger proof of Christian character than “all the dust and chaff of mere profession.” And in Jane Austen’s more virtuous characters, we find ample support for the conclusion that, while most eminently delighting her readers, she sought also to instruct them.

The Return of the Queen...

Posted on 12/30/2025 09:00 AM (New Advent)

There was a time, for a very long time and a long time ago, when the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham was one of the major places of pilgrimage in the whole of Christendom. By the sixteenth-century, the holy shrine at Walsingham, in the English shire of Norfolk, had welcomed pilgrims for more than 450 years...

St. Anysius

Posted on 12/30/2025 08:00 AM (CNA - Saint of the Day)

St. Anysius

Feast date: Dec 30

Saint Anysius was a Martyr of Greece. She was a wealthy woman of Salonika, in Thessaly, who used her personal funds to aid the poor. A soldier accosted her in the street and tried to drag her to a pagan sacrifice. Anysius resisted and was killed when the soldier attacked her with his sword.

DDF consultor: Marian title of Co-Redemptrix may be used in popular devotion (CNA)

Posted on 12/30/2025 05:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Msgr. Maurizio Gronchi, a consultor to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said in an interview with EWTN Noticias that the Marian title “Co-Redemptrix” may be “used in popular devotion, understanding its meaning.”

Commenting on the analysis of the title in Mater Populi Fidelis, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s November doctrinal note, Msgr. Gronchi said:

It’s not an absolute prohibition, but it will no longer be used in official documents or in the liturgy. But if used in popular devotion, understanding its meaning, no one will be reprimanded for it.

Msgr. Gronchi’s remarks echoed comments made earlier by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the dicastery’s prefect. Msgr. Gronchi’s assessment is significant, as he joined Cardinal Fernández at the November 4 press conference at which the document was presented.

For San Diego bishop, protecting immigrants is personal (The Guardian)

Posted on 12/30/2025 05:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

In an interview with The Guardian, Bishop Michael Pham of San Diego recalled his family’s journey from Communist Vietnam to the United States and discussed his decision to accompany migrants to immigration enforcement proceedings.

“There are people in court who have lived here for 10, 20, 30, 40 years without criminal records,” Bishop Pham told the British newspaper. “And just imagine they have family, children, grandchildren, businesses—now being torn apart.”

Over 200 Nigerian priests kidnapped in last decade (Aid to the Church in Need)

Posted on 12/30/2025 05:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

At least 212 Nigerian priests have suffered abduction since 2015, according to a study conducted by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria.

“Of the 212 kidnapped, 183 were released or escaped, 12 were murdered and three died later as a result of trauma and injuries suffered during their captivity,” according to the report. “Currently, at least four kidnapped priests remain in captivity.”

Vatican newspaper highlights mining pollution in DR Congo (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))

Posted on 12/30/2025 04:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

With the headline “Tra i veleni degli scarichi tossici” [Among the poisons of toxic waste], L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent article in its December 29 edition to pollution caused by mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Giada Aquilino’s article drew extensively on an earlier AFP report on the subject.

US bishops underscore virtue of hope as 2025 jubilee year closes in dioceses (OSV News)

Posted on 12/30/2025 04:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

In Spes Non Confundit, his bull of indiction for the 2025 jubilee year, Pope Francis established that the jubilee year would end in the world’s dioceses on December 28. This article summarizes the homilies of the archbishops of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Detroit, Miami, Galveston-Houston, and Los Angeles.