Syro-Malabar bishops avoid flashpoints at Modi meeting
While avoiding specific recent cases, the bishops did discuss minority rights and the role of religious minorities
Month: November 2025
Nov. 7 Friday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday
The month of November is dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory. We as the living so often soon forget the dead. We forget when we live, we are forgotten when we die. “Lay my body anywhere,” pleaded the dying St. Monica with her son, St. Augustine, “only this I beg of you: remember me at … Read more
Pope Leo XIV: We should allow ‘ourselves to be challenged’ by those who suffer
Pope Leo XIV receives the nuns in the consistory hall at the Vatican on Nov. 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said we should “allow ourselves to be challenged” by the presence of those who suffer “without fear of abandoning our own security” … Read more
Pope Leo XIV receives European Christian leaders after signing of new Ecumenical Charter
Archbishop Gintaras Grušas and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Nikitas Loulias present the signed updated Ecumenical Charter to Pope Leo XIV on Nov. 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 6, 2025 / 18:29 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV received in a Nov. 6 audience the members of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences … Read more
St. Peter Ou
Feast date: Nov 07 St. Peter Ou is one of the Martyrs of China. He was born to a non-Christian family in 1768. As a young man, he was outspoken with had a deep understanding of justice, and would eventually come to the defense of the poor and oppressed. He married and ran his own business, … Read more
Why Heretics Hate Mary but We Should Love Her More & More
Editor’s note: in light of today’s news, we must remember this important spiritual reality about Marian devotion. However, this text is not meant to imply that anyone is guilty of the crime of heresy, but merely to assert forcefully the spiritual reality behind this doctrinal question, written by a former Protestant. -TSF Marian devotion is … Read more
Nov. 6 Thursday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday
The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Leonard of Limoges (d. 559). He was a hermit-abbot who was a convert of St. Remigius. He was a French courtier offered a bishopric, but became a recluse at Micy, France. He then lived at Limoges, France, and he was given land by the royal court on which he founded … Read more
Saint Jean-Theophane Venard
Saint Jean-Theophane Venard Feast date: Nov 06 On November 6, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Jean-Théophane Vénard, a French missionary to Vietnam who was martyred for the faith. Famous for having inspired St. Therese of Lisieux, who said of St. Jean-Théophane that he was someone who had lived her own image of a … Read more
Pope Leo XIV discusses 2-state solution with Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas
Pope Leo XIV speaks with President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine during a private audience in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Nov. 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Nov 6, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV received President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine for an audience in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Thursday, … Read more
Pope Leo XIV to seminarians: ‘Piety without doctrine becomes fragile sentimentality’
Pope Leo XIV leads the faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in reciting the Angelus on Nov. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 5, 2025 / 16:33 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday addressed a letter to seminarians of the Archdiocese of Trujillo, Peru, reminding them of the need … Read more