Action Alert!

MATCHING GRANT: Every gift DOUBLED until Dec 19, if we hit our goal! 9 days and $67,716 left to match. Please act now!

Stories for week of December 07, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Wednesday, Dec. 10

Pope encourages Rorate Masses

Papal message marks centenary of Taiwanese university

Pope Leo: Martyrs of Chimbote show what is essential in Christianity

Pope, at jubilee audience, pays tribute to Blessed Alberto Marvelli

Released Tuesday, Dec. 9

Irish teacher faces Christmas in prison in dispute over gender ideology

Cardinal McElroy says cancer surgery successful

Pope tells new envoys: Church diplomacy strives for peace

Court approves settlement between New Orleans archdiocese, abuse victims

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy again meets with Pontiff

New York archdiocese building fund to pay abuse claims

Archbishop Gänswein: ‘never understood’ restrictions on traditional liturgy

European bishops’ conference questions court decision on same-sex marriage

Boston pastor refuses to remove anti-ICE sign from Nativity display

President Trump issues message for feast of Immaculate Conception

100 abducted Nigerian children freed

USCCB committee chairman reacts to President Trump’s comments on Somalis

Israeli settlers again attack Palestinian Christian village

Italian bishops publish 34-page document on peace

Croatian prime minister, Leo XIV discuss Ukraine war

Papal preacher reflects on the Parousia of the Lord

The Church ‘consistently affirms the vocation of scientific inquiry,’ Pontiff tells cardiologists

Pope Leo: Let us arise and walk in Christ’s light

Renew Mary’s ‘yes,’ Pope tells pilgrims

Released Monday, Dec. 8

CWN closed for feast of the Immaculate Conception

Want more news? Visit the Archives.

Wed10 December

Advent

Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent; Opt Mem of Our Lady of Loreto

Image for Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent; Opt Mem of Our Lady of Loreto

In 2019 Pope Francis added the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto to the Universal Roman Calendar. The title Our Lady of Loreto refers to the Holy House of Loreto, the house in which Mary was born, and in which the Word was made…

Learn more about this day.

Subscribe to Insights...free!

News, analysis & spirituality by email twice-weekly from CatholicCulture.org.

Find us on Social Media.