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…

A picture shows a view of the destroyed Beirut port silos on Aug. 1, 2025, as Lebanon prepares to mark the fifth anniversary of the Aug. 4, 2020, harbor explosion that killed more than 250 people and injured thousands. / Credit: JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images ACI MENA, Dec 1, 2025 / 15:21 pm (CNA)….

A screenshot from the Vancouver video in which Alissa Golob recorded her conversation with a health care worker at BC Women’s Hospital. / Credit: RightNow YouTube/B.C. Catholic Vancouver, Canada, Dec 1, 2025 / 15:51 pm (CNA). A week after The Catholic Register in Canada revealed that pro-life advocate Alissa Golob went undercover while 22 weeks…

Cardinal Kurt Koch during an interview with EWTN News. / Credit: EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 1, 2025 / 16:21 pm (CNA). The executive director of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Regina Lynch, thanked Pope Leo XIV for appointing Cardinal Kurt Koch as the new president of the pontifical foundation. “We very…

St. Peter’s Square during the declaration of St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the Church in November 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News Vatican City, Dec 1, 2025 / 16:51 pm (CNA). The Holy See closed the 2024 fiscal year with a surplus of 1.6 million euros ($1.86 million), according to the 2024 Consolidated…