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12/25/2025

In celebrating the morning liturgy publicly, Pope Leo restored a tradition that had lapsed for 30 years.

In celebrating the morning liturgy publicly, Pope Leo restored a tradition that had lapsed for 30 years.

12/25/2025

Summoned to be Witnesses

December 25, 2025, The Solemnity of Christmas: On this celebration of Christmas, Luke’s Gospel features accounts of two proclamations, one preceding and one following the briefly described birth of…

12/25/2025

A Tale of Two Christmases

There is a Christmas we sell and a Christmas the Lord offers.

12/24/2025

“The core message of any Christmas carol is incarnational.”

On this Christmas Eve, we’re wishing our America Media family many blessings and lots of holiday joy. And if you’re looking for that musical fix, listen to Hark! at the link in our bio.

12/24/2025

Now is the time for preachers

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent Mass in the Morning, by Tim Reidy

12/24/2025

Mary is every mother who has lost a child

No matter how a mother loses a child, the mourning must feel like an abyss. Mary’s child is every child who has died too soon.

12/23/2025

White House rebuffs Catholic bishops’ appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement

Florida's Catholic bishops have appealed to President Donald Trump to pause immigration enforcement during the Christmas holidays.

12/23/2025

Different kinds of John the Baptists

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

12/23/2025

Chicago Catholics seek to bring Communion to detained migrants on Christmas, ICE stays silent

Faith leaders plan to once again seek access to the processing center in Broadview, Ill., to bring the Eucharist to detainees on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

12/23/2025

All children kidnapped from Nigeria Catholic school will be home for Christmas

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.

12/23/2025

Pope Leo in Christmas address to Vatican officials asks: ‘Is it possible to be friends in the Roman Curia?’

Mindful that Pope Francis had often used the traditional pre-Christmas address to the Roman Curia to deliver some hard messages, Vatican officials had waited in expectation to see what Pope Leo would…

12/23/2025

Trump calls D.E.I. ‘immoral.’ Catholic teaching disagrees.

While Donald Trump’s executive orders claim to defend civil rights through “colorblind” neutrality, his rhetoric exposes what this supposed neutrality protects: not equality, but an unjust racial…