VATICAN CITY (CNS) – If people refuse to make room for others – like the poor, children and the stranger – then they also refuse to make room for God, Pope Leo XIV said as he celebrated the birth of Jesus...Peter’s Basilica ... As the bells of St ... ....
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22. Straying from tradition, the patriarch did not read from a prepared statement but said he would rather “have a dialogue” with the journalists ... 21 ... They also visited St ... “There is stress about returning to life after two years of war.
GRECCIO, Italy (OSVNews) – Eight centuries ago St. Francis of Assisi came to this hillside village to show the world that God chose to be born among the poor, staging the first Nativity scene in a cave outside the town of Greccio... that he had no key.
I was in Westminster Cathedral last week and the place was heaving with migrants and asylum seekers. Only kidding ... His blessing of a block of ice surely betrayed his views on climate change and he seems, also, to be soft on migrants ... Nazareth to Egypt.
... the status of a cathedral but notes that this elevation contrasts starkly with the meltdown of the Catholic Church in Dublin (“Dublin gets its cathedral while Catholicism is ailing,” December 19th).
The following is the full text of the Angelus address given by Pope Leo XIV Dec. 21, 2025, at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers and sisters, good afternoon! ... In this way, he shows that he understands the deepest meaning of his own religious observance.
Pope Leo XIV asked children to pray in front of their Nativity scenes this Christmas and, especially, to pray “that all the world’s children may live in peace.”. Clutching their creche figurines of the baby Jesus, thousands of children gathered in St.