Pope Leo XIV marks Nicaea anniversary, urges Christians to overcome divisions

Museum offers an immersive, evidence-based experience of the Shroud of Turin By Jim Graves on Dec 05, 2025 04:00 am Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, the chancery office of the Diocese of Orange, has welcomed a new interactive museum: “The Shroud of Turin: An Immersive Experience”. Located on the second floor of the campus’ [...] Read in browser » The repose of Archimandrite Nicholas Zachariadis, a monastic pioneer By Fr. Dcn. Robert Klesko on Dec 04, 2025 05:05 pm The monastery is the prophetic place where creation becomes praise of God and the precept of concretely lived charity becomes the ideal of human coexistence; it is where the human being seeks God without limitation [...] Read in browser » Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’ By Catholic News Agency on Dec 04, 2025 03:57 pm ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2025 / 13:37 pm The Vatican published on Dec. 4 the summary of the work carried out by the commissions studying the possibility of admitting women to the diaconate, presented [...] Read in browser » Artificial Womb Technology: Daedalus Revisited By Sister Renée Mirkes on Dec 04, 2025 03:42 pm On May 30, 2025, Japanese researchers at Juntendo University (Bunkyō, Tokyo) pulled back the curtain on their model of artificial womb technology (AWT). Dubbed the EVE therapy system, this artificial womb, after being successfully tested [...] Read in browser » Seven things to know about St. John of Damascus, the last Church Father By Catholic News Agency on Dec 04, 2025 04:00 am Church of Panagia tou Arakos, triumphal arch, wall paintings, Lagoudera, Cyprus — north side, St. John of Damascus. / Credit: Winfield, David, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons National Catholic Register, Dec 4, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Dec. 4 we cel... [...] Read in browser » Books for Christmas 2025 By George Weigel on Dec 04, 2025 01:00 am Surveys indicate that reading books is dropping precipitously across all age groups. This is a tragedy in itself; it’s also a social disaster, as a post-literate society risks becoming a post-rational society. All the more [...] Read in browser » Faith here and now By James Kalb on Dec 03, 2025 09:19 pm Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national creed, but it’s real, and it dominates public life. It [...] Read in browser » European Union imposes recognition of ‘homosexual marriage’ on all member states By Catholic News Agency on Dec 03, 2025 08:49 am ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 3, 2025 / 08:00 am The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that all member states are obliged to recognize so-called “homosexual marriages” legally contracted in another [...] Read in browser » Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, December 3, 2025 By CWR Staff on Dec 03, 2025 02:12 am Abandoning Latin – “The Vatican has announced the most far-reaching overhaul of its internal administration in a quarter of a century, with Pope Leo XIV approving two major regulatory texts that will reshape daily life [...] Read in browser » Scrolling ourselves to death By Marcus Peter on Dec 02, 2025 05:34 pm The recent revelation that Meta employees privately compared themselves to drug pushers while the company suppressed evidence of severe mental health harms to children arrives with the subtlety of a fire alarm in a library. [...] Read in browser » Pope Leo XIV lands in Rome after historic first papal trip to Turkey and Lebanon By Catholic News Agency on Dec 02, 2025 08:30 am CNA Staff, Dec 2, 2025 / 10:30 am Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Rome after his first apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. Note: CNA has concluded this live [...] Read in browser » A common sense victory in Ohio in the pronoun wars By Charles J. Russo on Dec 02, 2025 01:56 am Defending Education v. Olentangy Local School District Board of Education is a victory for free speech and common sense. A divided Sixth Circuit temporarily enjoined officials in Ohio from compelling students to use the “preferred [...] Read in browser » Eastern Catholics in the United States: A Look at the Numbers By J. J. Ziegler on Dec 01, 2025 05:57 am In Orientalium Ecclesiarum, the 1964 Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, the fathers of the Second Vatican Council declared: The Catholic Church holds in high esteem the institutions, liturgical rites, ecclesiastical traditions and the established standards of [...] Read in browser » CRS representative says Sudan’s crisis has reached “catastrophic proportions” By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Nov 30, 2025 05:15 pm Sudan is experiencing one of the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian crises, with 12 million people displaced since fighting began in April 2023, says Paul Emes, Country Representative for Sudan of the Catholic humanitarian organization, Catholic Relief [...] Read in browser » Advent is Apocalyptic By Carl E. Olson on Nov 29, 2025 12:00 pm Readings: • Is 2:1-5 • Ps 122: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 13:11-14 • Mt 24:37-44 Advent is apocalyptic. Perhaps you’ve never thought of it in that way. But the readings for this [...] Read in browser » Bishop Daniel E. Thomas discusses vocations, evangelization, transgenderism By Jim Graves on Nov 29, 2025 04:00 am Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, 66, is the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio. He is originally from Philadelphia and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1985. He lived in [...] Read in browser » Pope Leo XIV marks Nicaea anniversary, urges Christians to overcome divisions By Catholic News Agency on Nov 28, 2025 12:05 pm Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at an ecumenical event marking the 1,700th anniversary of Nicene Creed, in Iznik, Turkey, on November 28th, 2025. / Screenshot: Vatican Media Iznik, Turkey, Nov 28, 2025 / 08... [...] Read in browser »