Vatican yearbook goes online December 10, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican The Vatican’s fat red yearbook, known as the Annuario Pontificio, will now be available and updated regularly on an app and online.
A steady light: Pope Leo XIV’s top five moments of 2025 December 9, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Leo’s papacy, of nine months gestation, has revealed itself slowly — full of hope but also hidden, as though the first pope from the United States meant to show himself in small, unhurried measures.
Dialogue, diplomacy can lead to just, lasting peace in Ukraine, pope says December 9, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Leo XIV reiterated the importance of dialogue and his hopes for a just and lasting peace in the region.
Pope prays Mary will fill believers with hope, inspire them to serve December 8, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception as the Jubilee Year was ending, Pope Leo XIV prayed that “Jubilee hope” would “blossom in Rome and in every corner of the earth,” bringing with it reconciliation, nonviolence and peace.
Advent call is to cooperate in building a kingdom of peace, pope says December 8, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Preparing the way of the Lord means taking concrete steps to help usher in God’s kingdom of peace, Pope Leo XIV said on his first Advent Sunday back at the Vatican after his trip to Turkey and Lebanon.
Come all ye faithful: Christmas carols sing of God’s love, pope says December 8, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Vatican, World News VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christmas carols in every language and culture are expressions of how music can convey “feelings and emotions, even the deepest movements of the soul,” Pope Leo XIV said after listening, clapping and singing along at the Vatican Christmas concert with the poor. “As the melodies touched our hearts, we felt the inestimable value of music: not a luxury for the […]
A look at highlights of Vatican II on 60th anniversary of its wrap December 7, 2025By Alexander Brüggemann OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Second Vatican Council, which after three years of dialogue and document drafting closed on Dec. 8, 1965, changed the face of the church, and opened it to the modern world.
A Vatican commission recently said ‘no’ to women deacons. Two members of the commission explain why December 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: deacons, News, Vatican, World News A newly released Vatican commission report on the issue of women deacons ultimately shows the profound theological mystery of Christ’s relationship to the church, as well as the rediscovery of the long-dormant diaconate itself, experts told OSV News.
The story behind young woman who wept while hugging Pope Leo in Beirut December 5, 2025By Dale Gavlak OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News As Pope Leo XIV was wrapping up his first apostolic trip to Turkey and Lebanon recently, the world was moved by the sight of a young Lebanese woman crying and hugging the pontiff as he was meeting with victims of the deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion.
Pope asks Michael Bublé, other artists to give their best for poor December 5, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV asked Canadian singer Michael Bublé and other artists to do their very best when performing a Christmas concert for the poor.
Holy See at UN calls for end to Russia’s war in Ukraine ‘right now’ December 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The Holy See’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations called for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine “not at some undefined moment in the future, but right now.”
Papal commission votes against ordaining women deacons December 4, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: deacons, Feature, News, Vatican, World News A commission set up by Pope Francis to study women deacons has voted against the possibility of ordaining women deacons while also supporting more study on the issue.
