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Pope criticizes US bid to ‘break apart’ US-Europe alliance, insists on Europe role in Ukraine peace

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EU bishops condemn court ruling on same-sex unions

Dec 9
Elise Ann Allen

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Pope Leo XIV wave to journalists during their meeting in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Dec. 9, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Zelenskyy meets with Pope Leo for the third time

Dec 9
Paolo Santalucia,
Illia Novikov, Associated Press

A Nativity scene containing characters with cloth faces, by Belgian artist Victoria-Maria Geyer, is displayed in a white tent in Brussels, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Sylvain Plazy/AP.)

A controversial infant Jesus is stolen from a Belgian Nativity scene

Dec 2
Sylvain Plazy,
Associated Press

Auction officer Jean-Pierre Osenat gestures as the long-lost painting “Crucifixion of Jesus Christ” by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens was sold at auction for 2,3 million euros or $2.66 million in Versailles, west of Paris, Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Michel Euler/AP.)

A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million

Dec 1
Associated Press

A worker prepares a handmade Christmas bauble at GlitterLab in Czestochowa, Poland on Nov. 21, 2025. (Credit: Czarek Sokolowski/AP.)

The Polish ‘magicians of glass’ who create Christmas baubles for clients worldwide

Nov 30
Radal Niedzielski,
Associated Press

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross over the Waters in Cádiz, Spain. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Spanish bishop accused of sexual abuse maintains his innocence

Nov 27
Fionn Shiner

People visit Herrnhuter Sterne GmbH manufacturing, a Christmas stars manufacturing company in Herrnhut, Germany, Nov. 10, 2025. (Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP.)

Moravian stars light up Germany’s Christmas season

Nov 27
Kirsten Grieshaber,
Associated Press

In this July 8, 2021, file photo, a lobster boat carries a heavy load of traps as it motors out to sea near Peaks Island in Portland, Maine. (Credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP.)

Fishing industry facing new challenges, and the Church is trying to help

Nov 25
Charles Collins

Visitors walk through the Magdeburg Christmas market, in Magdeburg, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Credit: Matthias Bein/dpa via AP.)

Germany’s Christmas markets open with festive cheer and tight security

Nov 24
Kirsten Grieshaber,
Associated Press

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the referendum on assisted dying for terminally ill patients, in Domzale, Slovenia, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Credit: Darko Bandic/AP.)

Slovenians reject in a referendum a law on assisted dying for terminally ill patients

Nov 24
Associated Press