Archive for December 1, 2025

Pope Leo XIV reflects on the enduring message of St. Charbel Makhlouf at the hermit’s tomb at the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Elias Turk

Pope Leo entrusts Lebanon to St. Charbel’s intercession, prays at his tomb

Pope Leo XIV began his second day in Lebanon on Monday with a deeply symbolic pilgrimage to the tomb of... Read more

Pope Leo XIV addressed Lebanon’s bishops, clergy, and pastoral workers at Harissa, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Elias Turk

Pope Leo offers Lebanon a way to hope ‘even when surrounded by the sound of weapons’

Pope Leo told Lebanon’s bishops, clergy, and pastoral workers on Monday that Christians can remain steadfast in hope “even when... Read more

Pope Leo XIV in Harissa, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Elias Turk

Pope Leo tells Lebanese religious leaders unity and peace are possible

Pope Leo XIV told Lebanon’s religious leaders on Monday that their country remains a sign to the world that fear... Read more

Pope Leo XIV greets a young mother and her child outside of the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Elias Turk

Pope Leo to Lebanese youth: Love, not retaliation, is the real answer to evil

Pope Leo XIV met Lebanese youth in the square in front of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch in Bkerké on... Read more

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.?w=200&h=150

By Stephan Uttom Rozario

Father Bob and his bicycle: How this 88-year-old priest serves Bangladesh’s disabled children

Father Robert Terence McCahill cares for poor disabled people in Bangladesh. Ths week marks 50 years of service for the... Read more

Bishop Mario Avilés.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Pope Leo appoints Mexican-born Oratorian as bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas

Pope Leo XIV on Monday appointed Bishop Mario Avilés as the new bishop of Corpus Christi, selecting the Mexican-born Oratorian... Read more

Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa in the Philippines shares a laugh with Pope Francis in October 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Philippines bishops’ conference elects Garcera as president, an advocate for synodality

Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa has officially begun his new role as president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the... Read more

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.?w=200&h=150

By Romy Haber

Brother of Beirut explosion victim speaks ahead of Pope Leo IV’s visit to blast site

Five years after Beirut port tragedy, families look to Pope Leo to keep justice alive as the pontiff prepares to... Read more

A screenshot from the Vancouver video in which Alissa Golob recorded her conversation with a health care worker at BC Women’s Hospital.?w=200&h=150

By The B.C. Catholic

Reactions mount in Canada to undercover video exposing late-term abortions

Alissa Golob, co-founder of RightNow, posed as an undecided pregnant woman in abortion facilities in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary... Read more

Cardinal Kurt Koch during an interview with EWTN News.?w=200&h=150

By Eduardo Berdejo

Aid to the Church in Need welcomes appointment of Cardinal Koch as its new president

The executive director of Aid to the Church in Need, Regina Lynch, thanked Pope Leo XIV for appointing Cardinal Kurt... Read more

St. Peter’s Square during the declaration of St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the Church in November 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Victoria Cardiel

The Holy See closed the 2024 fiscal year with a surplus of $1.86 million

The Holy See closed the 2024 fiscal year with a surplus of 1.6 million euros ($1.86 million), according to the... Read more

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Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest.

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Leo XIV eliminates commission for donations to Holy See created by Pope Francis

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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Catholic bishops back Trump’s removal of gender ideology in refugee forms

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol.

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Bishop Michael Fisher outside the meeting hall during the 2019 USCCB General Assembly, June 12, 2019.

Buffalo bishop will allow faithful to meet at parishes to oppose closures, mergers

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

Pope Francis receives the bishops of England and Wales for their ad limina visit at the Vatican, Sept. 28, 2018.

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Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Archbishop Broglio: Drug cartels must be stopped, but not with ‘violence outside the law’

Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee.

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