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Christmas video by Lansing Diocese highlights Eucharistic adoration, story of ‘Silent Night’

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Dec 24, 2023 / 08:00 am The Diocese of Lansing in Michigan has released a Christmas video featuring the story of a beloved Christmas carol, a high school student choir, and the beauty of Eucharistic adoration. Created and produced by Matt Riedl, multimedia journalist for …
The Christmas Truce of 1914: Here’s what really happened

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Dec 25, 2022 / 10:00 am The experience of fighting in “The Great War,” World War I, was marked by brutality and misery on a scale never before seen. The grisly realities of trench warfare had already, in just five months, claimed a million …
Pope Francis appoints 5 new auxiliary bishops for Chicago Archdiocese

By Kristina Millare Vatican City, Dec 20, 2024 / 14:35 pm Pope Francis has appointed five new auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Chicago and assigned each bishop-elect a titular see in the Middle East and North Africa region, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, announced Dec. 20. …
Trump picks CatholicVote president Brian Burch as ambassador to Vatican

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2024 / 15:05 pm President-elect Donald Trump selected CatholicVote president and co-founder Brian Burch to serve as the United States ambassador to the Holy See, he announced on Truth Social Friday afternoon. “Brian is a devout Catholic, a father of nine, and president of CatholicVote,” …
German bishops respond to deadly Magdeburg market attack, call for prayer and peace

By AC Wimmer CNA Newsroom, Dec 21, 2024 / 07:30 am The president of the German Bishops’ Conference and the local bishop of Magdeburg have expressed their shock and offered prayers after a car attack at a Christmas market in eastern Germany on Friday left five people dead and more than …
O Little Town of Bethlehem… Pennsylvania? The story of ‘Christmas City USA’

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Dec 25, 2023 / 07:00 am There are at least 18 cities and towns in the United States named Bethlehem, but one of the first and perhaps the most famous is Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a town of 75,000 in the eastern state’s Lehigh Valley, a short drive …
Biden to meet with Pope Francis in January to discuss ‘peace’

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2024 / 19:45 pm U.S. President Joe Biden accepted an invitation to visit Pope Francis next month and discuss efforts to advance peace, the White House announced on Thursday. Biden, the country’s second Catholic president, is set to travel to Rome from Jan. 9–12 …
U.S. bishops designate National Shrine as Jubilee 2025 pilgrimage site

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2024 / 14:25 pm The U.S. bishops on Tuesday designated the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., as a special pilgrimage site for the 2025 Jubilee Year. A jubilee is a special holy year of grace and pilgrimage that happens …
‘Online to get people offline’: Experts show how Carlo Acutis modeled faithful use of tech

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2024 / 10:55 am An online presentation Tuesday sponsored by the National Eucharistic Revival explored the question of how Catholics can use technology for good, inspired by the life of soon-to-be-saint Carlo Acutis. Acutis, a young Italian who died in 2006, is due to be canonized …
Santa’s tomb? Coffin of St. Nicholas may have been found — but there’s a catch

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2024 / 06:00 am After years of excavation work, the leader of an archeological expedition at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, announced this week that her team has found a sarcophagus that may contain the body of St. Nick — a discovery that could …