Year: 2025

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 / …

Appreciation: Jesuit Fr. Greg Goethals, NCR board member and former head of Loyola High School of Los Angeles, died Nov. 24 in New York, days after having a heart attack …

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 / …

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 …

St. Bibiana Feast date: Dec 02 The earliest mention in authentic historical authority of St. Bibiana, a Roman female martyr, occurs in the “Liber Pontificalis” where in the biography of …

For there is one God. There is also one mediator between God and the human race, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself as ransom for all. — 1 Timothy …

Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Bibiana (died c. 361) who was martyred at Rome under Julian the Apostate around the year 361.

St. Peter’s Square during the declaration of St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the Church in November 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News Vatican City, Dec 1, 2025 / …