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Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters during his flight to Lebanon on Nov. 30, 2025. / Credit: Elias Turk/EWTN News Beirut, Lebanon, Nov 30, 2025 / 10:15 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that he discussed both the Gaza war and the conflict in Ukraine directly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying that … Read more
Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on November 30, 2025. / Screenshot: Vatican Media Beirut, Lebanon, Nov 30, 2025 / 11:20 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon’s leaders to embrace tenacity, dialogue, and a renewed commitment to the common good during an address at the Presidential Palace in Baabda … Read more
Workers erect the Vatican’s 2025 Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 27, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA). A towering Christmas tree now stands in the center of St. Peter’s Square, after the spruce arrived at the Vatican on Thursday morning. The 88-foot-tall spruce tree … Read more
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Volkswagen Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 29, 2025. / Screenshot: Vatican Media Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 29, 2025 / 11:20 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV marked the start of Advent on Saturday with an appeal for unity and peace, telling thousands gathered for Mass in Istanbul that Christians … Read more
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople sign a joint declaration at the Palace of the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 29, 2025. / Vatican Media Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 29, 2025 / 10:07 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople said on Saturday they … Read more
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at an ecumenical event marking the 1,700th anniversary of Nicene Creed, in Iznik, Turkey, on November 28th, 2025. / Screenshot: Vatican Media Iznik, Turkey, Nov 28, 2025 / 08:05 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV commemorated the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea on … Read more
The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco in Salone Sistino at the Vatican. / Credit: Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), Cesare Nebbia (1534-1614) e aiuti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 28, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). In the summer of A.D. 325, more than 300 bishops gathered in Nicaea … Read more
A long, long time agoI can still remember how that music used to make me smileAnd I knew if I had my chanceThat I could make those people danceAnd maybe they’d be happy for a while—Don McLean, “American Pie.” This last November 8, I passed a milestone – I turned 65 years of age. There … Read more
Pope Leo XIV with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, Turkey, on November 27, 2025. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 27, 2025 / 08:25 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV opened his first international trip on Thursday with a sweeping call for unity, renewed dialogue, and a rejection of the global drift toward division … Read more
Pope Leo XIV receives a Thanksgiving pie on board the papal flight to Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025 / Credit: Courtesy of Claudio Lavanga Rome Newsroom, Nov 27, 2025 / 09:25 am (CNA). Aboard the papal plane on Thanksgiving Day, Pope Leo XIV kicked off his first international trip — a visit to Turkey — … Read more