Vatican’s 2025 Christmas tree installed in St. Peter’s Square
Workers erect the Vatican’s 2025 Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 27, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA). A […]
Month: November 2025
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Nov. 29 Saturday of the Thirty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday
It is the Liturgical New Year’s Eve: today is the last day of Ordinary Time and the current Liturgical Year. Evening marks the beginning of Advent and the New Liturgical […]
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Pope Leo XIV, at Mass in Turkey, calls for Catholic, ecumenical and interreligious unity
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Volkswagen Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 29, 2025. / Screenshot: Vatican Media Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 29, 2025 / 11:20 am (CNA). Pope […]
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Pope Leo XIV and Bartholomew I ‘deeply alarmed’ by global tensions
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople sign a joint declaration at the Palace of the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 29, 2025. / […]
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Nov. 28 Friday of the Thirty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time, Weekday
The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. James of the Marches (1391-1476). St. James became a doctor of canon and civil law, and then decided to live austerely as a Franciscan friar. […]
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Council of Nicaea: 1,700 years of Christian unity amid division
The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco in Salone Sistino at the Vatican. / Credit: Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), Cesare Nebbia (1534-1614) e aiuti, Public domain, via […]
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Nov. 27 Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of Thanksgiving Day (USA), Weekday
Today in the United States is the Optional Memorial of Thanksgiving Day in the dioceses of the United States. In 1621 colonists in New England gave communal thanks and praise […]
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Pope Leo denounces ‘might is right’ in address to Turkish authorities
Pope Leo XIV with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, Turkey, on November 27, 2025. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 27, 2025 / 08:25 am (CNA). Pope Leo […]
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Pies and a baseball bat: The gifts Pope Leo XIV received on the papal flight to Turkey
Pope Leo XIV receives a Thanksgiving pie on board the papal flight to Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025 / Credit: Courtesy of Claudio Lavanga Rome Newsroom, Nov 27, 2025 / […]
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Nov. 26 Wednesday of the Thirty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday
The Roman Martyrology includes in commemoration: