The "confrontational" tone dominating both global and national politics is "deepening instability and unpredictability day by day," Pope Leo XIV wrote in his message for World Peace Day.
At the end of his one day off each week, Pope Leo XIV went to the local school in Castel Gandolfo and joined hundreds of excited parents in watching the children's Christmas concert.
For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily about the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV.
Christian archaeology seeks to see, hear and touch the Word made flesh, Pope Leo XIV said, inviting the world's bishops and others to encourage young people, lay people and priests to study archaeology.
“Imagine if right now living in our diocese there were a handful of great missionary saints. Imagine if Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Dominic, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Francis Xavier and the great Jesuit Missionaries, St. John Henry Newman, Venerable Fulton Sheen, and St. Teresa of Calcutta were all scattered across our 16 counties.
Medford’s Holy Rosary students, faculty, staff and their families recently collected food for their local food pantry.
Theirs is a task that needs teams of volunteers with green thumbs, and the call for plant-watering services will hit its peak soon with Christmas services coming.
Praying with Poetry for Advent & Christmas
A local chapter of the Catholic Medical Association is forming in the Diocese of Superior, giving healthcare workers an opportunity to pray together and support one another in monthly virtual meetings.
More than 16,000 teens and their chaperones attended the National Catholic Youth Conference from Nov. 20-22 at the Lucas Oil Stadium and Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
