Christmas carols in every language and culture are expressions of how music can convey “feelings and emotions, even the deepest movements of the soul,” Pope Leo XIV said after listening, clapping and singing along at the Vatican Christmas concert with the poor.
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Pope Leo cancels Vatican fundraising commission announced under questionable circumstances
Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves, canceling a special Holy See fundraising commission that was announced under questionable circumstances while Francis was hospitalized.
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Pope Leo asks Michael Bublé to give his best for the poor at Vatican Christmas concert
Michael Bublé, a Catholic who spoke to reporters after meeting the pope, said he was “overwhelmed” and “I’m really still not over the moment.”
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Pope Leo XIV’s first full-length US book, ‘Peace Be with You,’ to be released in February
The first full-length book by Pope Leo XIV to come out in the U.S. will be published next year.
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Christmas—and hope—return to Bethlehem after two somber years
Christmas here is not escapism. It is defiance.
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Archbishop Broglio urges end to Trump administration’s Venezuela strikes
“I call on our Nation’s leaders, legislators, and those specifically charged to direct our Armed Forces to respect the consciences of those who raise their right hands to defend and protect the Constitution by not asking them to engage in immoral actions,” Archbishop Broglio said.
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Retired FDNY chief who lost his son on 9/11 dies of 9/11-related illness
Twenty-four years after he lost his firefighter son in the terror attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11, retired FDNY Deputy Chief James “Jim” Riches was laid to rest on Dec. 1.
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Vatican’s 2024 surplus represents ‘significant progress’ in economic situation
The Vatican reported that it ended 2024 with a 1.6-million-euro surplus ($1.85 million) compared to a deficit of 51.2 million euros ($59.3 million) in 2023.
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Pope Leo: Recognize the gifts of faith and life on Thanksgiving
The holiday is an opportunity “to say thank you to someone, to recognize that we all have received so many gifts,” Pope Leo XIV said.
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Vatican rejects polyamory and praises monogamy in new doctrine document
The dicastery for doctrine said it issued the note in response to requests from the bishops of Africa where polygamy is still practiced as well as because “various public forms of non-monogamous unions—sometimes called ‘polyamory’—are growing in the West.”