Children costumed as participants in a papal conclave await Pope Leo XIV at the De La Croix Hospital in Jal el Dib, Lebanon, on December 2, 2025. / AIGAV Pool 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…

Pope Leo XIV greets a young mother and her child outside of the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Bkerke, Lebanon, Dec 1, 2025 / 12:34 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV told thousands of young people in Lebanon on Monday that love, not retaliation, is the…

Abdul Mannan Khan and his disabled son Abu Mosa Khan meet with Father Robert Terence McCahill at their home in Munshigonj district, Bangladesh, on Nov. 18, 2025. The priest visits villages daily to find disabled children and connect them with medical treatment. / Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario Munshigonj, Bangladesh, Dec 1, 2025 / 13:34 pm…

Bishop Mario Avilés. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Brownsville Vatican City, Dec 1, 2025 / 13:44 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday appointed Bishop Mario Avilés as the new bishop of Corpus Christi, selecting the Mexican-born Oratorian to lead the south Texas diocese.  Avilés, 56, who has served as auxiliary bishop of…

Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa in the Philippines shares a laugh with Pope Francis in October 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 1, 2025 / 14:14 pm (CNA). Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa has officially begun his new role as president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).  The CBCP…