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Pope Leo XIV urges a ‘more missionary’ Roman Curia and warns against internal divisions

By Angela Ambrogetti | Catholic News Agency

VATICAN— Pope Leo XIV on Monday called on officials of the Roman Curia to deepen both mission and communion, urging Vatican offices to be “more mission-oriented” and cautioning against the “forces of division” that can take root even “beneath an apparent calm.”

Speaking during his annual Christmas greetings with personnel of the Church’s central administration, the pope also paid tribute to Pope Francis, whom he described as his “beloved predecessor” who “this year concluded his earthly life.”

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All children kidnapped from Nigeria Catholic school will be home for Christmas

By OSV Editorial Board | The Dialog

Catholics in northwestern Nigeria are celebrating just days before Christmas, as the last group of students kidnapped from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri has been freed.

Church officials confirmed that the remaining 130 students were released on Dec. 21, ending a monthlong ordeal that began when more than 300 pupils were abducted from the diocesan school in Niger State. The school is owned by the Diocese of Kontagora and run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles.

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Nigerian Government frees 130 kidnapped Catholic schoolchildren

Nicholas Roll with Aminu Abubakar in Kano | The New Zealand Herald

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said today, after 100 were freed earlier this month.

“Another 130 abducted Niger state pupils released, none left in captivity,” Sunday Dare said in a post on X.

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Review: Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt’s ‘Black and Catholic’ is a tour de force in African-American sociology

Rana Irby calls the book a corrective to an academic corpus that has far too often forgotten the nation’s 3 million U.S. Black Catholics.

By Rana Irby | Black Catholic Messenger

Much ink has been spilled in scholarly and religious spaces addressing the intersection of race and religion, especially in the context of the United States. Largely left out of the equation, however, are Black Catholics. Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt, in her new book “Black and Catholic: Racism, Identity and Religion,” seeks to rectify that.