Catholic Standard

12/04/2025

Think about this for a moment. I mean really think about it. God loves you and me so much that he sent his Son into our world to save us. Jesus was born in a lowly manger of a humble woman named Mary. In that humility, he gave each of us the opportunity to share completely in God’s presence now and, through the Resurrection, ultimately share in his life forever in Heaven.

Think about this for a moment. I mean really think about it. God loves you and me so much that he sent his Son into our world to save us. Jesus was born in a lowly manger of a humble woman named Mary. In that humility, he gave each of us the opportunity to share completely in God’s presence now an...

12/04/2025

The annual Catholic University of America Christmas Concert for Charity will be held Friday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast Washington, D.C.

12/04/2025

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington will celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the annual Walk with Mary procession on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. The pilgrimage will begin at 11 a.m. at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington, D.C. at 16th and Park Road, N.W., and continues on to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at 400 Michigan Ave., N.E. Participants will pray the rosary at the National Shrine at 1 p.m. and then attend a Mass at 2 p.m.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington will celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the annual Walk with Mary procession on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. The pilgrimage will begin at 11 a.m. at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington, D.C. at 16th and Park Road, N.W., and continues o...

12/04/2025

This time is about more than folding open the cardboard windows of an Advent calendar and preparing for Santa Claus – and it’s actually about more than just getting ready for the Baby Jesus in the manger. It is also about getting ready for Christ’s final coming at the end of history.

Well, it’s coming. We are here in the Second Sunday of Advent – in the desert, with a strange and disheveled figure dining on wild food and proclaiming that we need to make ourselves ready for the Lord. Welcome to the John the Baptist Era.

12/04/2025

Even if Pope Leo XIV’s Thanksgiving trip to Turkey and Lebanon began with lighthearted moments – receiving pumpkin pies and White Sox trinkets from the Vatican press corps – the journey itself was anything but casual.

12/04/2025

In 2025, perhaps no public policy question has generated more commentary and protest than immigration and deportation. The matter is not confined to the U.S., of course, with analogous controversies across Europe. But through recent statements by both the American bishops and Pope Leo XIV, the sharper focus has recently been on the United States.

In 2025, perhaps no public policy question has generated more commentary and protest than immigration and deportation. The matter is not confined to the U.S., of course, with analogous controversies across Europe. But through recent statements by both the American bishops and Pope Leo XIV, the sharp...

12/04/2025

Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home just outside of Chicago has been declared a historic landmark.

The board of trustees of the village of Dolton, Illinois, approved a motion for the designation during a regular meeting Dec. 1 that began with a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer.

12/04/2025

Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences and waning public support for the practice during comments at a Dec. 3 press event announcing a new coalition called the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

12/02/2025

Pope Leo XIV ended his stay in Lebanon with what he termed “a heartfelt appeal: may the attacks and hostilities cease.”

12/01/2025

On a cold, rainy morning in Northwest Washington, D.C., worshippers arrived at Our Lady of Victory Parish for a Mass on Nov. 30 as the church welcomed the relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux on the First Sunday of Advent.

On a cold, rainy morning in Northwest Washington, D.C., worshippers arrived at Our Lady of Victory Parish for a Mass on Nov. 30 as the church welcomed the relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux on the First Sunday of Advent. When the pews filled, parishioners and visitors made room wherever they could, ...

12/01/2025

Father Klaus Joseph Sirianni, a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington for 47 years and a former longtime Air Force chaplain, died Nov. 21, 2025 at the age of 80.

12/01/2025

At a shrine topped by a 28-foot-tall statue of Our Lady of Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV listened to stories of unshakable faith amid war, injustice and suffering.