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
Day: November 8, 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 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
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
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