Cardinals follow the ceremony during the ordinary public consistory for the creation of new cardinals at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA National Catholic Register, Nov 7, 2025 / 17:10 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV is planning to convene an extraordinary consistory of cardinals in early January, the theme … Read more
null / Credit: sitthiphong/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 7, 2025 / 16:11 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday warned about new addictions of recent times such as compulsive gambling, betting, and pornography as consequences of excessive internet use. The Holy Father issued his warning in a video message addressed to participants in the seventh … Read more
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity Feast date: Nov 08 St. Elizabeth of the Trinity was born Elizabeth Catez in Bourges, France, in 1880. Her father, a military captain, died when she was only seven, leaving her mother to raise Elizabeth and her sister, Marguerite. Elizabeth was a very lively girl and a gifted pianist, … Read more
While avoiding specific recent cases, the bishops did discuss minority rights and the role of religious minorities
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
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 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
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
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
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