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…
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Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Nov. 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 2, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The pope has approved the new General and Personnel Regulations of the Roman Curia, which come into effect Jan. 1, 2026, and which…
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Pope Leo XIV prays in silence at the site of the 2020 port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, on December 2, 2025. / 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, praying…
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for an estimated 150,000 people at Beirut’s Waterfront in Lebanon, on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Marwan Semaan/ACI MENA. Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 2, 2025 / 04:52 am (CNA). Beirut heard a different kind of voice on Tuesday morning. In a city still marked by the sounds of the 2024 escalation…
A person detained is taken to a parking lot on the far north side of the city before being transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2025. / Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Catholic bishops in the United States…
The Catholic parish geographically closest to our home is huge, with more than 13,000 parishioners, according to the diocesan website. It has confession once a week for half an hour. Let’s say (very generously) that because of age or other reasons only 3,000 of those parishioners are able to participate in the sacrament of penance…
