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The Good News: From Pope Francis to Charlie Kirk, Many Deaths in 2025 Had a Wide Impact

The Good News | December 8, 2025 | by Catholics for Catholics

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SAINT OF THE DAY: The Immaculate Conception

FROM POPE FRANCIS TO CHARLIE KIRK, MANY DEATHS IN 2025 HAD A WIDE IMPACT 
The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope…READ MORE > 

POPE LEO XIV AMONG THE MOST VIEWED AND SEARCHED ON WIKIPEDIA AND GOOGLE IN 2025 
The profile of Pope Leo XIV is among the most viewed pages on the digital encyclopedia Wikipedia, and his names — both the one he took upon beginning his pontificate on May 8 and his given name, Robert Francis Prevost…READ MORE > 

TRUMP SIGNS OFF ON NATIONWIDE VACCINE SCHEDULE REVIEW AS CDC WITHDRAWS INFANT HEP B GUIDANCE: ‘FAST TRACK’ 
President Donald Trump ordered a sweeping federal review of every childhood vaccine recommendation in the United States Friday, just hours after a CDC advisory committee voted to end its long-standing guidance for infants to receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth…READ MORE > 

EXCLUSIVE: SEVENTEEN PRO-LIFERS ARRESTED OUTSIDE MEMPHIS PLANNED PARENTHOOD 
Ten men and seven women spent last night in a Memphis jail after staging a peaceful protest in front of the Memphis, Tennessee, Planned Parenthood building…READ MORE > 

TRUMP ‘LITTLE BIT DISSAPPOINTED’ ZELENSKYY HASN’T READ LATEST PEACE DRAFT 
President Donald Trump, appearing on the red carpet at the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night, said he was “a little bit disappointed” in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not yet reading the text of Washington’s latest proposed peace plan…READ MORE >

ON VISIT TO DETROIT, PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM FOCUSES ON HOPE FOR HOLY LAND CHRISTIANS 
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, expressed cautious hope for peace in Gaza, calling on people of the region to combat hatred and “think differently” about each other…READ MORE >

DEMOCRATS ESCALATE WAR-CRIME ACCUUSATIONS AS WHITE HOUSE CALLS ‘INNOCENT FISHERMAN’ THE NEW ‘MARYLAND MAN’ HOAX 
Democrat lawmakers are increasingly turning up the heat on the Trump administration over its series of military strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean since September, most recently focusing on alleged drug runners who survived an initial strike and were killed by a follow-up…READ MORE >

PHILADELPHIA ARCHDIOCESE PRAYS ST. ANDREW NOVENA FOR FALLEN AWAY CATHOLICS 
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is mobilizing Catholics this Advent to pray the St. Andrew Christmas Novena prayer 15 times daily for a single intention: the reconciliation of the 83% of baptized Catholics in the archdiocese who no longer participate in the sacramental life of the Church…READ MORE >

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