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Kristina Millare

Kristina Millare

Kristina Millare is a freelance journalist with a professional communications background in the humanitarian aid and development sector, news journalism, entertainment marketing, politics and government, business and entrepreneurship.

Workers erect the Vatican's 2025 Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican's 88-foot-tall 2025 Christmas Tree Towering in the Centre of St. Peter's Square

The 88-foot tall spruce tree from Italy’s Bolzano province was erected next to the ancient Egyptian obelisk which stands in...

A map of Nigeria. / Credit: SevenMaps/Shutterstock

Nigerian Catholic Priest: Those Responsible for Killing Christians, Muslims Should Be Held Accountable

Nigerian priest Father Mathias Ashinnoitian Adugba told EWTN News that more must be done to hold people accountable for the...

Pope Leo XIV meets with the leadership and staff of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s global charitable network operating in more than 200 countries, on Nov. 21, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV to Caritas: Be Artisans of Peace, Serve Every Person With Dignity

Pope Leo XIV on Friday met with the leadership and staff of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s global charitable network operating...

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Youssef Absi of Antioch (left) and Father Chihade Abboud, rector and parish priest of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin (center), speak with Melkite Catholic Elie Bassila. Members of the Lebanese Catholic diaspora are anticipating Pope Leo XIV’s three-day visit to Lebanon, taking place from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Elie Bassila

Lebanese Catholics Abroad Await Pope Leo XIV’s Visit to Their Homeland With Hope

Members of the Lebanese Catholic diaspora hope the new pontiff will continue his papal predecessors’ solidarity with the Middle East’s...

Pope Leo XIV leads the faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in reciting the Angelus on Nov. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV to Seminarians: "Piety without doctrine becomes fragile sentimentality"

“A piety without doctrine becomes fragile sentimentality; doctrine without prayer becomes sterile and cold,” Pope Leo XIVsaid in a Nov....

Pope Leo XIV leads the Church’s commemoration for his papal predecessor and 142 other bishops who died in the past year on Nov. 3, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Celebrates Mass in Suffrage for Deceased Prelates

Pope Leo XIV on Monday presided over a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in suffrage for the late Pope Francis...

As part of Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV held an Oct. 31, 2025 audience with teachers. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Gives Catholic Educators Lessons from St. Augustine

Pope Leo XIV said Catholic educators can learn four fundamental values from St. Augustine’s teachings: interiority, unity, love, and joy.  

Approximately 300 representatives of world religions and cultures joined the Holy Father for an evening ecumenical prayer service for peace, organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio, on Oct. 28, 2025, at the Colosseum in Rome. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Commemorates Nostra Aetate Anniversary with Interfaith Celebrations

Pope Leo XIV joined faith leaders Tuesday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Church’s declaration on relationships...

Pope Leo XIV meets with participants of the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements on Oct. 23, 2025, in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Criticizes Pharmaceutical Industry’s Role in Scourge of Opioid Addiction

In a meeting with participants of the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements, the pope directly spoke out against “unbridled...

Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: Sadness in Life Can Be Healed Through Christ

Continuing his jubilee catechesis on “Jesus Christ Our Hope,” the Holy Father said the mystery of Christ’s resurrection can “change...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks at the release of Aid to the Church in Need’s “Religious Freedom in the World Report 2025” at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Aid to the Church in Need: Authoritarian Regimes Are Greatest Threat to Religious Freedom

Authoritarian regimes are among the main drivers of religious discrimination and persecution in 52 countries, according to an Aid to...

Pope Leo XIV meets Italian President Sergio Mattarella during his first state visit to the country that surrounds Vatican City State on Oct. 14, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Leo XIV Meets Italian President Sergio Mattarella in First State Visit to Italy

Pope Leo XIV met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on Tuesday.

Through the example of Mary, Pope Leo on Sunday in St. Peter's Square said the Church can see the “revolutionary nature of love and tenderness” and its impact on the events of history as well as the everyday lives of each individual. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: Authentic Marian Spirituality Brings God’s Tenderness into the Church

Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square was attended by 30,000 pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of...

Pope Leo XIV stands before the original Our Lady of Fatima statue at a Marian vigil in St. Peter's Square, Rome, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Thousands of Pilgrims join Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square to Pray the Rosary for Peace

Before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima, which was brought to Rome from Portugal for the Oct. 11–12 Jubilee...

Pope Leo XIV greets men and women religious during an audience for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Oct. 10, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

"The Church needs you": Pope Leo XIV to Women and Men Consecrated

Pope Leo XIV said the Church and the world need men and women consecrated to Jesus to reveal God’s presence...

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims at his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Pope Leo XIV: Joy Does Not Have to Be "free from suffering"

“There is an obstacle that often prevents us from recognizing Christ’s presence in our daily lives: the assumption that joy...

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for the Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists on Sept. 28, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV to Make First International Trip, to Turkey and Lebanon

Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey and Lebanon in the first apostolic journey of his pontificate, to take place from...

Pope Leo XIV greets participants attending the Oct. 1-3 Migrants and Refugees in Our Common Home summit in Rome on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: "Culture of reconciliation" Needed to Support Migrants, Displaced People

Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 2 said a “culture of reconciliation” is necessary to support more than 100 million people...

Italian Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu (right) waits prior to the start of a consistory during which 20 new cardinals are to be created by Pope Francis on Aug. 27, 2022, in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. / Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images

Pope Leo XIV Says He Will Not Interfere in Cardinal Becciu Court Case

In response to a journalist who asked the pontiff about the “Becciu trial,” Leo said “the trial must go forward”...

Pope Leo canonizes Saints Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, September 7. / Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Proclaims Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati Saints

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the Italians Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati saints before a crowd of thousands in St....