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By Lavoisier Fernandes – The recent nightclub fire in Arpora, Goa-India, which claimed twenty-five lives and injured at least fifty people, has shaken the state’s
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Paul Suski – During Advent, on December 12, we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is an image traditionally held not to
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Second Thursday in Advent – December 11, 2025 Isaiah 41: 13-20; Matthew 11: 11-15 Daring to behold the Reign is, almost always, interpreted in terms
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Second Tuesday in Advent – December 09, 2025 Isaiah 40: 1-11; Matthew 18: 12-14 One of the signs or consequences of daring to behold the
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Second Wednesday in Advent – December 10, 2025 Isaiah 40: 25-31; Matthew 11: 28-30 Daring to behold the Reign is the task entrusted to us
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December 8, 2025: Genesis 3: 9-15, 20; Ephesians 1: 3-6, 11-12; Lk 1: 26-38 The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Mother –
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December 7, 2025 – Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15: 4-9; Matthew 3: 1-12 Repent, for the Reign of God is close at
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By Purushottam Nayak – Visakhapatnam: The 50th Annual Retreat of priests from the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar from the eastern Indian state of Odisha concluded recently
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Speaking to about 1,000 people taking part in the “Living Nativity” tradition at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, Pope Leo challenges them to spread the message that we are never alone and continue to be “pilgrims of hope, bearers of consolation and inspiration for all those you meet.”
In the presence of Pope Leo XIV, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Cherubini’s "Mass for the Coronation of Charles X" at a Christmas concert in the Paul VI Hall, during which he receives the 2025 “Ratzinger Prize“. The concert was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Dicastery for Culture and Education and the Pontifical Foundation "Gravissimum Educationis".
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St Peter’s Basilica for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who awakens “in the inhabitants of America the joy of knowing they are loved by God.”
The Catholic Bishops of Thailand and Cambodia voice their concern for the intensifying conflict along the two countries' shared border, as thousands of people have been displaced.