Life issues are perennially critical to the robust public witness of the Catholic Church, but 2025 nonetheless proved a particularly eventful year across a wide spectrum of related concerns.
The year opened with the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life,...
After two gunmen targeted Jewish beachgoers at an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah in a terror attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Pope Leo XIV said he is "deeply saddened" by the attack he called "horrific."
In a Dec....
A Catholic Nobel Peace Prize winner who was unexpectedly freed from jail in Belarus has paid tribute to supporters who helped secure his release, while warning that over a thousand political prisoners still languish in his country's penal colonies.
"Psychologically,...
Hong Kong's prominent Catholic, media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been convicted of national security offenses under the city's controversial national security law.
Sebastien Lai, one of his children, said the family was saddened but not surprised by...
VATICAN CITY -- The Nativity scene and the Christmas tree are signs of faith and hope, Pope Leo XIV said.
"As we contemplate them in our homes, parishes and town squares, let us ask the Lord to renew in us...
WILMINGTON — The Padua Academy community gathered the week of Dec. 8 to celebrate the Advent season with a prayer service filled with music, readings, prayers, reflections and the lighting of the Advent candle.
Following the service, the student council...
VATICAN CITY -- Even in difficult situations and harsh places, like prisons, when people focus on caring for one another, respecting each other and offering forgiveness, "beautiful flowers spring forth from the 'hard ground' of sin and suffering," Pope...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski of Providence offered prayers for "all affected by this tragedy" in the wake of a Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University that left two students dead and nine others injured.
Officials said Dec....
With roses in hand, hearts ready and children in tow, more than 500 worshippers gathered for Mass in Frankford the evening of Dec. 12 to celebrate the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe at her namesake church, Our...
PENNY HILL – A cold-shooting third quarter was too much for Saint Mark's to overcome in a 60-50 loss to West Philadelphia in boys basketball on Dec. 13 at Mount Pleasant High School. The Spartans and Speedboys met as...