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COMMENTARY: Christmas is a celebration when the Church seeks to renew in every baptized Catholic the call to
Pope Leo's first Christmas Urbi et Orbi Blessing. Credit: Vatican Media

Full text: Pope Leo’s Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” Blessing 2025

Pope Leo delivers his first Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” Blessing as Bishop of Rome, to which is attached
Pope Leo greets the Infant Jesus before Mass during the Day on the Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord. Credit: Daniel Ibanez | EWTN Vatican

Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s Christmas day homily

On Christmas morning at 10 a.m., the Holy Father Leo XIV presided over the Holy Mass during the
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Christmas Mass during the Night in a packed St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 24, 2025. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News

Pope Leo XIV on Christmas night: Make room for others

Pope Leo XIV, at Christmas Mass during the Night, said Christ’s birth brings light into the world’s darkness
Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the recitation of the Angelus on Dec. 21, 2025. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV revives tradition during first Christmas of his pontificate

Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Christmas at the Vatican by reviving the tradition of offering Christmas Mass
Pope Leo XIV venerates a statue of the Child Jesus during the celebration of Christmas Mass during the Night in St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 24, 2025. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News

Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s Christmas night homily

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Christmas Mass during the Night in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday. The Mass was

Saints of Christmas

I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas! As this holy day approaches, we look back on

The ‘most valuable’ gift to give this Christmas, according to Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV told the young people of Italian Catholic Action that they can perform a simple gesture

St. Francis and the story of the first Nativity scene

It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony

Pope Leo makes surprise visit to children’s Christmas concert at Castel Gandolfo school

Pope Leo XIV enjoyed a special Christmas concert this week dedicated to him by students of the Paul
Pope Leo passes the Nativity Scene in his Popemobile during Wednesday's General Audience. Credit: Vatican Media

Christmas Comes to Life in Vatican City

Christmas has arrived at the Vatican, transforming Vatican City into a place of light, beauty, and reflection as
Procession of Light. Credit: EWTN Vatican

St. Lucy’s Day Shines Light on Christmas 

Candles, processions, and songs of light mark one of Scandinavia’s most cherished traditions. In the heart of winter,
Pope Leo visits the Nativity Scene in Paul VI Audience Hall. Credit: Vatican Media

Updates: Final Jubilee Events and Pro-Life Christmas

Welcome to this week’s Vaticano Updates, bringing you the most important news from Pope Leo XIV and the

5 Catholic resources to help you grow closer to Christ this Advent

As Advent quickly approaches and the hustle and bustle of the holiday season begins to make its way

When Was Jesus Born? Italian Researcher Puts Christ’s Birth In December, 1 BC

An interview with researcher Liberato De Caro of the Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council in Bari, Italy

Pope Francis recounts Christmas according to St. Francis de Sales

It is called “Everything Belongs to Love,” Pope Francis’ new apostolic letter dedicated to St. Francis de Sales

Pope Francis: “Christmas is not the fairy tale of the birth of a king”

The period of the octave of Christmas, or the eight days of festivities that follow the remembrance of

Pope Francis, Christmas Urbi et Orbi 2022: “The world is experiencing a famine of peace”

Jesus being born is true peace, and is “the way of peace,” Pope Francis says in his customary

Vatican authority asks that at Christmas there be “lights on” in confessionals

Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, wrote a letter addressed to confessors inviting them to

Pope Francis: On this feast of God who becomes a child, let us think of the children of Ukraine

This year,” the Holy Father noted, “will be filled with the multitude of refugees from Ukraine, to whom

Pope Francis offers 5 commitments on the road to Christmas

Pope Francis proposed to the faithful 5 concrete commitments to live with intensity the remaining days of Advent

PHOTOS: Live nativity takes to the streets of Rome

Catholics from Italy participated in a re-enactment of the Christmas story in Rome on Saturday. The processional living

The Vatican Opens Beautiful Exhibition of Several Nativity Scenes

The Vatican is honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary while also preparing for Christmas. On Thursday, the Holy See

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