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Giotto’s Nativity fresco projected on the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. / Credit: Buffy1982/Shutterstock
Rome Newsroom, Dec 21, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
One of the world’s most beloved saints, St. Francis of Assisi, loved Christmas so much that he created the first Nativity scene to make the birth of Jesus more real.
The pope with boys and girls from Italian Catholic Action on Dec. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV told the young people of Italian Catholic Action that they can perform a simple gesture that would be the best gift this Christmas: make peace.
Servant of God Enrique Shaw. / Credit: Acdeano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 10:35 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Venerable Enrique Shaw, an Argentine layman, husband, father, and businessman.
Bishop Richard Moth, a former bishop of Britain’s military ordinariate, was appointed as the 12th archbishop of Westminster on Dec. 19, 2025. / Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
London, England, Dec 19, 2025 / 09:26 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Richard Moth, a former bishop of Britain’s military ordinariate, as the 12th archbishop of Westminster.
Pope Leo XIV holds up a tennis racket given to him by children of the Pope Paul VI Pontifical School in Castel Gandolfo on Dec. 16, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 18, 2025 / 18:08 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV enjoyed a special Christmas concert this week dedicated to him by students of the Paul VI Pontifical School in Castel Gandolfo.
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. / Credit: fotogoocom via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0)
Vilnius, Lithuania, Dec 18, 2025 / 14:04 pm (CNA).
The European Parliament voted Dec. 17 in favor of a resolution supporting the creation of a new fund intended to expand access to abortion services across EU member states.
Catholic faithful gather on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral in Dublin to celebrate two milestones: a decree from Pope Leo XIV formally designating St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin and the cathedral’s bicentenary. / Credit: John McElroy/Dublin Archdiocese
Dublin, Ireland, Dec 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Following a report in one of Ireland’s mainstream media publications, the Archdiocese of Dublin has moved to clarify questions raised about its financial security.
This image is preserved in the Church of San Vital, built in 386, in Rome. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News
Rome Newsroom, Dec 17, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
The Church of St. Vitale is the oldest Christian church still standing in the center of Rome and contains the first image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Rome.
Schoolchildren attend a ceremonial welcome and tree planting at Aras an Uachtarain, the official residence of the president of Ireland, during a state visit by His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco and his fiancee, Charlene Wittstock, on April 4, 2011, in Dublin. / Credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
Dublin, Ireland, Dec 17, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
A U.K. Supreme Court ruling has found that Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland is unlawful, but it does not apply to Catholic schools.
The European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. / Credit: Ala z via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)
EWTN News, Dec 17, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The EU-Western Balkans summit on Dec. 17 in Brussels brings together European Union leaders and their counterparts from six Western Balkan nations.
St. Januarius (left) and the relic of the blood of St. Januarius. / Credit: Chapel of St. Januarius
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 16, 2025 / 12:58 pm (CNA).
The miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius, patron saint of the Italian city of Naples, occurred again on Tuesday, Dec. 16.
The Berlaymont building in Brussels, seat of the European Commission. / Credit: EmDee/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
EWTN News, Dec 16, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA).
A drastic cut in EU funding has plunged the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe (FAFCE) into financial crisis, according to the association.