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A report presenting the results of the Commission's work has been released today. It rules out admitting women to the diaconate understood as a degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders, but says that it is not currently possible "to formulate a definitive judgment, as in the case of priestly ordination." "The status quaestionis of historical research and theological investigation, as well as their ... Read More

This year's World Aids Day Mass - Journeying Together for an HIV-free World - will take place at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 3AH on Saturday 6 December at 3pm. The Celebrant will be Canon Pat Browne. Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe OP, Patron of Catholics for Aids Prevention and Support (CAPS) will give the homily. The global HIV response is facing its mos... Read More

Gospel of 4 December 2025 Matthew 7:21, 24-27 At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: 'Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord", will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 'Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds bl... Read More

Pope Leo was accompanied by 81 journalists on his return flight to Rome from his Apostolic Journey to Türkiye and Lebanon on Tuesday. In a wide-ranging press conference he began by greeting everyone and thanking all them for their hard work reporting on the trip. Speaking in English, Italian and Spanish the Holy Father reflected on his journey, the role of the Holy See, which works "behind-th... Read More

As the Pope travelled back to the Vatican from Lebanon, the President of Bosnia was arriving in the UK to mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Agreement. Dayton marked the final close of the wars of independence in former Yugoslavia and especially a conflict where Bosnian Muslims had been neglected by the West leaving them open to persecution and, indeed, genocide at the hands of... Read More

Two eloquent Palestinian speakers launched the Amos Trust Christmas appeal at St James's Piccadilly, last Saturday, in an evening of deeply contrasting moods and emotions. Gazan journalist Hala Hanina from Palestinian Deep Dive told a terrible Christmas story of a "brilliant, beautiful, powerful" young woman called Sara who lost all her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home on Christmas ... Read More

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has condemned an Israeli raid on the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in the occupied West Bank, warning that pressure on Palestinian civil society has reached alarming levels. Israeli security forces raided the organisation's offices in Ramallah and Hebron on 1 December, vandalising property and detaining staff. According to OHCHR, people present in the b... Read More

St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy, St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy, and Hope Academy - all part of All Saints Multi Academy Trust - came together for a special Jubilee pilgrimage on World Children's Day, 20 November. Each academy began its pilgrimage from its own school site around Newton-le-Willows, processing towards St Mary and St John's Catholic Church as a way of living out this year's Jubi... Read More

Christmas can be a challenging time for seafarers. They miss spending this special time of the year with their family. Many struggle to cope with homesickness. Christmas just doesn't feel like Christmas when you're thousands of miles away from home and can't be with the people you love. But seafarers arriving on ships at the ports in the UK are never forgotten, thanks to the port chaplains and ... Read More

Saint Susanna's in Dedham, Massachusetts, USA, is an active Pax Christi parish. For this year's outdoor Nativity scene, the figurines of the Holy Family are not displayed - instead, the parish placed a sign: "ICE was here." When contacted by a Boston Globe reporter who asked if the photo was authentic and if ICE actually had visited the church, St Susanna's pastor Fr Steve Josomo confirmed the ve... Read More

Gospel of 3 December 2025 Mark 16:15-20 At that time: Jesus appeared to the Eleven and he said to them, 'Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will ... Read More

Pope Leo began the last day of his Apostolic Visit to Lebanon on Tuesday with prayers at the site of the catastrophic explosion of 2020 in the Port of Beirut that killed over 200 people, wounded 7,000, and left 300,000 without homes. The Holy Father stood for several minutes before the monument bearing the names of all the victims as the world looked on. He then bent to touch a wreath of red roses... Read More

More than 13,000 young people gathered in Bkerké on Monday evening for an open-air meeting with Pope Leo. The atmosphere was jubilant. The event began with processions and the testimonies of volunteers and young people, before two more asked the Holy Father questions. In his speech, the Pope began by addressing those present with the "greeting of the Risen Jesus", "assalamu alaikum" - "peace be w... Read More

After his visit to the Shrine of St Charbel Makhlouf, Pope Leo on Monday, Pope Leo met with bishops, priests, consecrated men and women, and pastoral workers at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa. From here he went on to Martyr's Square in Beirut for a gathering with Christian and interreligious leaders. In his meeting with bishops, priests, consecrated persons and pastoral workers, the ... Read More