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Vancouver, Canada, Dec 1, 2025 / 15:51 pm A week after The Catholic Register in Canada revealed that pro-life advocate Alissa Golob went undercover while 22 weeks pregnant to test whether late-term abortions were accessible in Canada [...]

ACI MENA, Dec 1, 2025 / 15:21 pm As part of his visit to Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut port explosion — the largest nonnuclear blast in [...]

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 1, 2025 / 14:14 pm Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa has officially begun his new role as president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). The CBCP elected Garcera [...]

Wearing a white scarf emblazoned with the logo of Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Lebanon and holding a Vatican flag, Sister Geneviève struggles to hide her emotion. The Pope is due to appear at the Basilica of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa today, Monday, December 1. Like more than 2,000 Lebanese priests and religious, Read More…

Lebanese fear the return of war after the Pope’s departure

Oxford University Press has just revealed its Word of the Year: Rage bait. It is defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive” — the term may feel all too familiar to anyone who’s spent five minutes scrolling this year. According to Oxford’s data, usage of Read More…

This word was just named 2025’s most toxic trend

On December 1, Catholics around the world mark the feast of St. Charles de Foucauld — a man whose life of prayer, poverty, and hidden holiness still speaks powerfully today. But before the desert, before the solitude, and before the sainthood, there was a single conversation that changed everything. In fact, after a wild youth, Read More…

How one Confession led to conversion for Charles de Foucauld

On Monday, December 1, Pope Leo XIV spent time in prayer at the tomb of St. Charbel, a 19th-century Maronite hermit monk, renowned as a great miracle worker. This event at the St. Maroun monastery in Annaya took place on the second day of the Pope’s trip to Lebanon. His visit to the tomb is Read More…

Why is St. Charbel depicted with his eyes closed?

There are a few bishops who are referred to as a “patriarch,” and even the pope has the official title of “Patriarch of the West.” It’s a term that can be confusing to some, as it sounds important, but few know the history of this particular title. The word itself comes from the Greek patriarches Read More…

What does it mean when a bishop is called a “patriarch”?

While there is nothing new about the Holy See’s frequent advocating for a two-state solution to bring peace to the Holy Land, the Pope’s most recent insistence on it, as he was leaving Turkey, again brought international attention. The Pope offered a few brief words to the press and answered a couple questions on the Read More…

Leaving Turkey, Pope urges 2-state solution for Israel, Palestine

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