El papa Francisco celebrará la tradicional “Misa durante la Noche” de Navidad el 24 de diciembre en el Vaticano, pero empezará la liturgia a las 7:30 p.m. hora local, de modo que las pocas personas invitadas puedan regresar a sus hogares a tiempo para cumplir con el toque de queda a las 10 p.m. en Italia.

Iraqi Syriac Catholic refugee families are among the more than 100,000 Christians driven out from Iraq’s Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State in the summer of 2014.

The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Dec. 14.

Pope Francis pledged Vatican City State would achieve net-zero carbon emissions before the year 2050, and he urged everyone in the world to be part of a new culture of care for others and the planet.

he humble image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a reminder of the gift of God’s abundant blessings to all men and women, Pope Francis said.

One month to the day that the Vatican released its report on since-laicized cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a panel of academics took a close look at what one called a “hyperclerical culture” that allowed McCarrick’s sexual misconduct to go unchecked.

Long reviled as a pale afterthought compared to its two predecessors, 1990’s “The Godfather Part III” (Paramount) is now available in in a recut version, “The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone,” from director and co-writer Francis Ford Coppola.

Anglo-Saxon England in the ninth century provides the backdrop for “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” (Ubisoft).