Christmas 2025

Located in an industrial strip mall and known for educating students who have experienced incarceration, trafficking, gang life, addiction, poverty or homelessness, St. Gemma Outreach High School can inspire trepidation on a first visit.

As one grows deeper in an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, it becomes completely natural — almost instinctive — to overflow with love, joy and a burning desire to serve others, which is, at its core, living the true spirit of Christmas every single day of the year.

What would Christmas be like at The Catholic Register without the joy of seeing so many children who understand the true meaning of Christmas?

Just about everyone enjoys a Christmas holiday with all the trimmings, including Santa’s ho ho ho and Rudolph’s red nose. But the preparatory time of Advent can serve as an invitation to explore more deeply the true spiritual meaning of the Incarnation and to focus more intently on the virtues that reflection on that mystery should promote.

A Christmas message from Cardinal Frank Leo

A Christmas message from the CCCB

Christmas carols in every language and culture are expressions of how music can convey “feelings and emotions, even the deepest movements of the soul,” Pope Leo XIV said after listening, clapping and singing along at the Vatican Christmas concert with the poor.

A few days after his concert at the Vatican, Canadian crooner Michael Bublé took to Instagram to reflect on his time there, which included a meeting with Pope Leo XIV.

In the Advent season, memories rise to the surface like so many twinkling lights on the tree. We remember those we love who have passed, the happy Christmases, the sad ones.