The faceless Nativity scene in Brussels, Belgium, in November 2025. / Credit: Maxim Van den Bossche Brussels, Belgium, Dec 2, 2025 / 10:08 am (CNA). A new Nativity scene featuring faceless cloth figures installed on Brussels’ historic Grand Place — and the theft of the infant Jesus — have ignited fierce debate across Europe, with…

Pope Leo XIV speaks with reporters on his flight from Beirut to Rome on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Elias Turk/EWTN Rome, Italy, Dec 2, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has begun conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the need to halt violence and seek…

Bishop Patrick Neary of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, Minnesota. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Saint Cloud Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2025 / 12:03 pm (CNA). Bishop Patrick Neary of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, has been appointed as the chair of Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) board.  Neary was appointed by Archbishop Paul…

Pope Leo XIV speaks to patients and caregivers at the De La Croix Hospital in Jal el Dib, Lebanon, on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Jal el Dib, Lebanon, Dec 2, 2025 / 02:07 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV told hospital patients and caregivers in Lebanon that he had come to “where Jesus…

Pope Leo XIV prays in silence at the site of the 2020 port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: AIGAV Pool Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 2, 2025 / 03:15 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV paused on the final morning of his trip to Lebanon before the ruins of the Beirut port explosion,…

Three Augustinian nuns (pictured on Sept. 16, 2025) fled their nursing home and returned to their convent in Austria. / Credit: Courtesy of Nonnen_Goldenstein EWTN News, Dec 2, 2025 / 09:14 am (CNA). An attempt at an amicable solution in the conflict over Goldenstein Monastery in Austria has failed: The three elderly Augustinian nuns have…