Pope Leo XIV shares lunch with people in need at the Vatican on November 16, 2025. / Daniel Ibáñez Vatican City, Nov 16, 2025 / 11:15 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV had lunch on Sunday with more than 1,300 people experiencing poverty and social exclusion, gathering with them in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall for … Read more
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on November 16, 2025. / Daniel Ibáñez Vatican City, Nov 16, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Celebrating Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor on the Ninth World Day of the Poor, Pope Leo XIV urged Christians not to retreat into a closed … Read more
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great (c. 1200-1280), son of a German nobleman. While studying at Padua when the Master General of the Dominicans, Jordan of Saxony, succeeded in attracting him to that Order. He was to become one of its greatest glories. After taking his degrees at the … Read more
New outpatient clinic for people in need in St. Peter’s Square. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 16:50 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Nov. 14 visited a new outpatient clinic in the Vatican, built beneath the colonnade of St. Peter’s Square, in the lead-up to the ninth World Day … Read more
Pope Leo XIV receives cloistered Augustinian nuns at the Vatican on Nov. 13, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 15:43 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV praised the “silent and hidden love” of cloistered nuns who, he said, are free from the slavery of society’s focus on outward appearances. Focusing … Read more
The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Laurence O’Toole (1128-1180) today, but in Ireland it is an Optional Memorial (although a feast in Dublin). Laurence (also referred to as “Lawrence”) was the Archbishop of Dublin during the takeover of Ireland by the Normans and King Henry II. His efforts in the peace process and his frustration with … Read more
Spiritual Insights for Today: A tragic accident occurred when a bus carrying a group of mostly teenagers from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Santa Ana, California, overturned on its way home from a three-day retreat at Camp Nawakwa in the San Bernardino Mountains. First responders were on the scene to provide aid. The … Read more
Pope Leo XIV gives his apostolic blessing at the end of the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Nov. 12, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 13, 2025 / 15:54 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV during an address at the Vatican on Thursday called for the “prudent” evaluation of supernatural phenomena to … Read more