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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…
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…
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…
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)….
