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Stories for week of December 14, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Tuesday, Dec. 16

 Liturgy, governance on agenda for January meeting of cardinals
 United Airlines settles suit with Catholic flight attendant
 Bishops’ immigration spokesman defends USCCB stance
 Michigan AG releases report on alleged abuse in Diocese of Grand Rapids
 Federal court sides with New Orleans archdiocese, against priest who alleged discrimination
 Thai desire for military glory is fomenting conflict, Cambodian prelate says
 USCCB president expresses prayerful solidarity with Jewish community following Sydney shooting
 Pontifical academy president believes late physicist’s theories point to Christianity
 Vatican security forces hold jubilee
 Papal appeal for peace in DR Congo
 Pope Leo: The Nativity scene reminds us we are never alone
 Pope, addressing conductor Muti and concert performers, speaks of importance of music
 Follow Christ and know the divine law, Pope tells priests, religious, and seminarians

Released Monday, Dec. 15

 Pope decries Australian shooting, condemns anti-Semitism
 Filipino bishops oppose nuclear power generation
 Czech prosecutor seeks rehabilitation of Cardinal Beran, foe of Communist regime
 Sydney’s Archbishop Fisher blasts anti-Semitism after mass murder
 Hong Kong court finds Jimmy Lai guilty
 Diplomacy builds on honesty, trust, Pope says
 Cardinal Parolin: Violence in Mozambique has ‘fundamentally religious root’
 Cardinal Fernández delivers address on Mary as Mother of Evangelization
 Record 12.8 million pilgrims visit Guadalupe shrine
 Vatican newspaper highlights plight of Tuvalu’s migrants
 Vatican publishes book on progress of Methodist-Catholic dialogue
 Martyrs beatified in Spain, France
 Rejoice, for Jesus is our hope, Pope tells pilgrims on Gaudete Sunday
 ‘Let no one be lost,’ Pontiff preaches at Jubilee of Prisoners
 Papal preacher reflects on rebuilding the Lord’s house
 On Guadalupe feast day, Pope prays that leaders shun lies, hatred, division, disrespect for life

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Tue16 December
Advent

Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent

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We are the blind offspring of the children of pitiful Eve Bringing with us the shadows born of an age-old error. But when God deigned to assume the mortal form Of a human nature, then came forth from the Virgin A world of salvation.... —Carmen 4, Sedulius The Roman…

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