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12/12/2025

A Chicago priest completed a 900-mile walk from Chicago's south suburbs to New York City Dec. 2 to highlight the difficulties immigrant families are facing under the current immigration crackdown across the United States.

12/12/2025

Christmas Creep:
(noun) The gradual lengthening of the Christmas season, with ever earlier displays of lights, wreaths, and decorated trees, and insistent advertisements for holiday sales to fuel consumerist profiteering.

Here are 5 ways to avoid 'Christmas Creep' this Advent season!

12/11/2025

Celebrating almost six decades of Catholic-Methodist theological dialogue, the Vatican publishing house has released a book summarizing the issues dialogue members have agreed on and briefly outlined the issues where work is ongoing.

The book,

12/11/2025

A massive outbreak of mosquito-borne illness is sweeping Cuba just weeks after Hurricane Melissa, straining parish life and Catholic ministries across the island.

12/11/2025

When Rian Johnson was still writing the script for his new "Knives Out" movie, he turned to his Catholic aunt and uncle for help -- they introduced him to their parish priest.

When Rian Johnson was still writing the script for his new

12/11/2025

A federal judge in Maryland Dec. 11 ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident at the center of a high-profile immigration case, from ICE custody "immediately."

"Since Abrego Garcia's return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority," the judge said.

12/11/2025

The New York Tenors will fire up the Christmas classics Dec. 13 at St. Mark's High School in Wilmington.

"It's something about this time of year, no matter what's going on in the world, no matter what … you try to be happy and with family, friends."

12/11/2025

First-of-its-kind Australian law banning youth under 16 from most social media platforms went into effect Wednesday, Dec. 10. Here's what experts think parents and adults should focus on in this new social landscape for young people: https://www.osvnews.com/expert-urges-vigilance-in-digital-formation-as-australias-social-media-ban-goes-into-effect/

12/11/2025

The Vatican released Pope Leo's apostolic letter "on the importance of archaeology," Dec. 11, "on the occasion of the centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology," which was founded by Pope Pius XI in 1925

The Vatican released Pope Leo's apostolic letter

12/11/2025

"In a narrow dwelling, in swaddling clothes, in a manger. For whom dost Thou endure all this?" -- St. Augustine of Hippo

12/11/2025

The impact of immigration enforcement -- including the ongoing nationwide deportation efforts -- is "making life unbearable" for many Catholic families.

The impact of immigration enforcement -- including the ongoing nationwide deportation efforts -- is

12/10/2025

A few days after his concert at the Vatican, Canadian crooner Michael Bublé took to Instagram Dec. 10 to reflect on his time there, including his meeting with Pope Leo XIV.

A few days after his concert at the Vatican, Canadian crooner Michael Bublé took to Instagram Dec. 10 to reflect on his time there, which included a meeting with Pope Leo XIV.