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To turn away others is to turn away God, pope says on Christmas Eve

Catholic Standard 25 Dec 2025
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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Immigration debate ‘dividing us’, incoming archbishop of Canterbury warns in Christmas sermon

The Guardian 25 Dec 2025
Sarah Mullally says ‘national conversations continue to divide us when our common humanity should unite us’ ... ....
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Open your hearts to baby Jesus and one another, pope says on Christmas

Catholic Standard 25 Dec 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Jesus entering the world as a little baby in need of everything is a sign of God’s solidarity with every person in need, longing for love and a helping hand, Pope Leo XIV said at Christmas morning Mass ... 25 in St. Peter's Basilica.
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What I Lost When I Gave Up My Catholicism

The Atlantic 24 Dec 2025
Catholicism is hot right now ... Catholicism—with its stained glass and embroidered robes—is particularly well suited to a visual medium that sells beautiful imagery ... (Catholicism isn’t alone—the ranks of ...
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All children kidnapped from Nigeria Catholic school will be home for Christmas

Catholic Standard 24 Dec 2025
(OSV News) – Catholics in northwestern Nigeria are celebrating just days before Christmas, as the last group of students kidnapped from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri has been freed ... Mary’s Catholic School, Papiri ... On Dec ... On Dec.
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Cardinal Pizzaballa: Gaza’s Christians long to rebuild life after two years of war

Catholic Standard 24 Dec 2025
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.
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A dream of Bethlehem community: A house for the poor in village where St. Francis ...

Catholic Standard 24 Dec 2025
GRECCIO, Italy (OSV News) – 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.
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Where Moth Destroys: Why Has the Pope Appointed a Pro-Migrant Fanatic to Lead the Catholic ...

The Daily Sceptic 23 Dec 2025
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.
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Letters to the Editor, December 23rd: On Catholicism and an ailing future, abortion and getting perplexed

The Irish Times 23 Dec 2025
... 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).
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Full text of Pope Leo’s Angelus address Dec. 21

Catholic Standard 22 Dec 2025
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.
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Pray for peace in front of the Nativity scene, pope asks children

Catholic Standard 22 Dec 2025
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.
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