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…
Pope Leo XIV made his first official papal visit to Turkey last week, where he encouraged the small Catholic community to find strength in Christ. He also recited the original Creed promulgated by the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325—in an effort to bolster unity with representatives from the Apostolic Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian, and Chaldean…
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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…
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