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In annual speech to curia, Leo challenges ad intra divisions

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Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, left, leads a Christmas Eve Mass at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Cardinal celebrates Christmas mass in Gaza City

Dec 21
Melanie Lidman,
Associated Press

Christmas in Nazareth, Israel. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Christmas celebrations return to Nazareth in Israel

Dec 21
Charles Collins

Palestinian vendors wait for clients in Manger Square in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP.)

Christmas spirit returns to Bethlehem after ceasefire in Gaza

Dec 20
Jalal Bwaitel,
Melanie Lidman, Associated Press

A Palestinian looks over an area of buildings destroyed during Israeli air and ground operations at sunset in northern Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Credit: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP.)

Holy Land’s top Catholic leader visits Gaza parish, greeted by children in Santa hats and keffiyeh

Dec 20
Associated Press

A Palestinian vendor displays sardines for sale on a street of a local market in Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Credit: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP.)

Spread of famine in Gaza Strip averted, Cardinal visits only Catholic church

Dec 19
Sam Mednick,
Associated Press

Actress Patricia Heaton receiving an award in Boca Raton’s B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Florida on Dec. 9, 2025. (Credit: Magen David Adom.)

Catholic actress Patricia Heaton receives award for her support of Israel

Dec 17
Charles Collins

A fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" adorns the wall of a 3rd-century tomb in Hisardere, where archaeologists uncovered one of Anatolia's best-preserved early Christian artworks, in Iznik, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Credit: Khalil Hamra/AP.)

Rare fresco of Jesus as the ‘Good Shepherd’ uncovered in Turkish town visited by the pope

Dec 13
Mehmet Guzel,
Andrew Wilks, Associated Press

The Jerusalem Regional Archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority, Dr. Amit Re'im, walks in a section of an excavation site where, according to the institution, a city wall from the Hasmonean period, dating to the late 2nd century BCE, was uncovered under the Tower of David Citadel Museum, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Credit: Leo Correa/AP.)

Archaeologists uncover intact section of ancient Jerusalem wall from Hanukkah era

Dec 10
Melanie Lidman,
Associated Press

Palestinians take part in a Christmas tree–lighting event in Manger Square, next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Jesus Christ ahead of Christmas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP.)

Christmas celebrations return to Bethlehem after 2 years of war in Gaza

Dec 8
Megan Janetsky,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV holds a moment of prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope prays at site of 2020 Beirut port explosion

Dec 2
Nicole Winfield,
Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press

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