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OSV editors name Pope Leo XIV as Catholic of the Year

Pray for peace in front of the Nativity scene, pope asks children

Baby’s First Christmas: A children’s Christmas story by a local priest, illustrated by students

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OSV editors name Pope Leo XIV as Catholic of the Year

Full text of Pope Leo’s Angelus address Dec. 21

Pray for peace in front of the Nativity scene, pope asks children

Pope thanks priests, encourages them to share responsibilities with laity

Junior Saints Christmas 2025 artwork and writings

Born in hardship, sung in hope: the quiet, powerful origins of ‘Silent Night’

Experts offer strategies for connection during Christmas amid U.S. ‘epidemic’ of loneliness

Cardinal Pizzaballa visits Gaza City’s Holy Family Parish before Christmas

New York’s new archbishop ‘committed’ to immigration issues, accountability on abuse – and staying a Cubs fan

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Pope Leo XIV begins his papacy

This series follows the election, installation, and early pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, offering continuing coverage of his vision, teachings, and leadership of the universal Church. From the Sistine Chapel to Saint Peter’s Square, and beyond, the Catholic Standard chronicles the first steps of this new chapter in the life of the Church.

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington

Saluting the Class of 2025

Looking back at Cardinal Gregory’s service as archbishop of Washington

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Pontifical John Paul II Institute-Spring 2026

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Full text of Pope Leo’s Angelus address Dec. 21

Experts offer strategies for connection during Christmas amid U.S. ‘epidemic’ of loneliness

An unexpected Advent lesson

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Photo Gallery: Annual Walk with Mary procession and Mass

Photo Gallery: Haitian Catholic pilgrimage to National Shrine for Jubilee Year of Hope

Photo Gallery: Commemorating Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Parish

During a Nov. 15 commemoration of Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, Maryland, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington unveiled a new project that seeks to “honor those enslaved by the Catholic Church in Maryland.”

Photo Gallery: At White Mass, Cardinal McElroy encourages people to see as God sees, and recognize the gifts of all

Photo Gallery: Reinterment Ceremony at Brick Chapel in Historic St. Mary’s City

Photo gallery: 111 th World Day of Migrants and Refugees

Photo Gallery: Let the bells of Nagasaki echo to the world - 80th anniversary Nagasaki Peace Memorial Masses and interreligious dialogues to pray for world peace

Photo Gallery: First day of school at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Washington

Photo Gallery: In Hiroshima 80 years after atomic bombings in Japan, Pilgrimage of Peace events include Memorial Masses and Peace Symposium

Photo Gallery: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington Jubilee Year pilgrimage from The Saint John Paul II National Shrine and The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

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Cardinal McElroy blesses icon at St. Hugh Church, saying image ‘lifts our eyes to the Lord’

St. Bartholomew student is national winner in Christmas artwork contest

Singers unite for Jubilee Choral Festival at St. Matthew’s Cathedral to mark holy year

Annual Retirement Fund for Religious collection to be taken up Dec. 13-14

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Cardinal Pizzaballa visits Gaza City’s Holy Family Parish before Christmas

New York’s new archbishop ‘committed’ to immigration issues, accountability on abuse – and staying a Cubs fan

Pope accepts resignation of Cardinal Dolan; names Bishop Hicks of Joliet, Ill., as successor

Trump, lawmakers call for Jimmy Lai's release after 'unjust conviction'

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Pope thanks priests, encourages them to share responsibilities with laity

Photo Gallery: Annual Walk with Mary procession and Mass

Photo Gallery: Haitian Catholic pilgrimage to National Shrine for Jubilee Year of Hope

Attending school Christmas concert, pope thanks children for sharing love

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Born in hardship, sung in hope: the quiet, powerful origins of ‘Silent Night’

The Films of Rob Reiner

Grammy award winner says meeting Pope Leo ‘is something I will carry with me forever’

Come all ye faithful: Christmas carols sing of God’s love, pope says

Junior Saints

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November Junior Saints: Like St. Thérèse, students show their own ‘Little Way’ of drawing closer to Jesus

Junior Saints topic for November: Like St. Thérèse, students invited to show their own ‘Little Way’ of drawing closer to Jesus

Junior Saints: What students did for Lent

Students' self-portraits and dreams for the future

Care for Creation

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Laudato Trees celebrates planting 1,000 trees in Archdiocese of Washington

Believers must care for the poor and creation, pope says

‘Creation is crying out,’ pope says in new message to COP30

Bishops, humanitarian leader urge bold, courageous action at UN climate conference