Scripture readings for Nov. 30, 2025, First Sunday of Advent
Is 2:1-5 Ps 122: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Rom 13:11-14 Mt 24:37-44
Since ancient times, Romans 13 has been read by Christians at Advent. To wake up spiritually to the...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Facing east toward the altar of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine, Deacon Roy Callison burned cedar as his wife, Susan, recited the first of the four invocations in the Prayer in the Four Directions, a traditional...
On this episode of Catholic Forum, after a news update from Joe Owens of The Dialog and a cut from the CD "Songs of Angels" by the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, we talk with Notre Dame professor and author, Catherine Cavadini.
Cavadini's new...
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis was often filled with laughter and loud, excited talk as thousands of teens made their way back and forth through its wide hallways during the National Catholic Youth Conference Nov. 20-22.
But...
AMMAN, Jordan -- Lebanese Catholics yearn for the upcoming visit of Pope Leo XIV to achieve something lost in recent years. Signs bearing the pontiff's photo along newly rebuilt roadways express their longing: "Lebanon wants peace."
Indeed, Pope Leo comes...
CHICAGO -- A stakeholder -- and next owner -- of the Chicago White Sox baseball team said Pope Leo XIV told him that he'd "love to" throw a season opening first pitch in the future -- "schedule permitting."
Pope Leo's...
It was a chilly Saturday morning, but that didn't stop hundreds of people from joining the annual Bishop's 5K at Saint Mark's High School on Nov. 22 and raising nearly $30,000.
The festive family atmosphere included games, food for attendees...
A month after the abduction of American pilot Kevin Rideout in Niger's capital, Niamey, church and missionary sources in the West African country say the silence surrounding his disappearance is disturbing.
Three unidentified men abducted the 50-year-old missionary pilot Oct....
VATICAN CITY — As talks aimed at ending Russia's war on Ukraine continued, Pope Leo XIV welcomed the prime minister and pilgrims from Latvia, another nation bordering Russia.
"While the current conflict in your region may evoke memories of those...
Authors of new German church guidelines for sexual identity classes at Catholic schools have declined to defend their text, after several bishops said it violated Catholic teaching and had been circulated without their consent.
"Created, Redeemed and Loved," compiled by...