Christmas Eve in the Netherlands, where every year children light candles on the graves Canadian soldiers who liberated the Netherlands in '44-'45. Thank you Canada! 🇨🇦

#PopeLeo: "If all of us, at every level, would stop accusing others and instead acknowledge our own faults, asking God for forgiveness, and if we would truly enter into the suffering of others and stand in solidarity with the weak and the oppressed, then the world would change."

Pope Leo XIV on Christmas Day deplored the “falsehoods” used to justify wars that leave young people “forced to take up arms” and “sent to their deaths." catholicnewsagency.com/news/268683/po…

From the Child of Bethlehem, we implore peace and consolation for the victims of all current wars in the world, especially those that are forgotten, and for those who suffer due to injustice, political instability, religious persecution and terrorism. #Christmas

"On earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other…” “God becomes like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person…” Good Christian teaching, that. reuters.com/world/pope-leo…

🚨🇪🇺🌍 NATO WARNS OF MOST DANGEROUS MOMENT SINCE WWII NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has warned the world is approaching its most dangerous point since World War II, with the risk of synchronised aggression from Russia and China. 🔴 China watching Taiwan closely as Russia

BREAKING: Puerto Rico recognizes the humanity and legal personhood of unborn children from the moment of conception Huge win for life!

“Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.” — Pope Benedict XVI

NEW: Cardinal Müller during Mass today for anniversary of Benedict XVI’s death — “what is a church of Jesus Christ? She is not a man-made organization with a grand ethical or social program, an NGO now. The Church of Christ is a community of his disciples who say of themselves

One of the most remarkable speeches by Pope Benedict XVI, delivered at the German Bundestag. “Yet I would like to underline a point that seems to me to be neglected, today as in the past: there is also an ecology of man. Man too has a nature that he must respect and that he

“In Jesus of Nazareth, we encounter the face of God, who came down from his Heaven to immerse himself in the human world, in our world, and to teach “the art of living”, the road to happiness; to set us free from sin and make us children of God (cf. Eph 1:5; Rom 8:14). Jesus came

The crucial question placed by Seewald to Ratzinger is this: One phrase from your first homily as pope has remained particularly impressed in our memory: “Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.” Had you perhaps foreseen what awaited you? The pope replies that

It is the duty of the Church to proclaim always and everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He, the first and supreme evangelizer, commanded the Apostles on the day of his Ascension to the Father: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the

Sami Gold A straw man. In reality, the Church rejects both individualism (because it violates the principle of solidarity) and collectivism (because it violates the principle of subsidiarity): “To avoid the reefs of individualism and collectivism, the twofold character, that is

There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one

In a world that has become relativistic, a new paganism has gained more and more dominion over people’s thoughts and actions. It has long since become clear not only that there is a blank space, a vacuum, alongside the Church, but also that something like an anti-church has been

Former President of Poland Lech Walesa wrote the following letter to Trump. Your Excellency, Mr. President, We watched the report of your conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, with fear and distaste. We find it insulting that you expect Ukraine to show

The train to Auschwitz, 1942. This footage, in color, shattered my heart. So innocent. So noble. At the final station, their lives vanished - dressed in their modest finery, moving toward the gas chambers. Never again. Never again.

Wherever God is not, hell comes into existence: it consists simply in his absence. That may also come about in subtle forms and almost always does so under cover of the idea of something beneficial for people. —Pope Benedict XVI

I understand that one of the topics under consideration at the Consistory of Cardinals is synodality. I’m speaking as a bishop who was an elected delegate to both rounds of the Synod and Synodality in Rome and who has just presided over a local synod in my own diocese. Synods are