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Last day of Pope Leo XIV in the land of cedars, Vatican employees don't believe their accounts, the heirs of communism, the Church and social networks, the unfinished revolution of Pope Francis.

2 December, 2025 | SPECOLA

Today marks the end of Pope Leo XIV's trip to Lebanon in the second stage of his first international journey. Yesterday was his second day in the Land of Cedars, which was filled with excited crowds.…

Last day in Turkey and first in Lebanon, resolving abuse cases, Müller and the Vatican's relativism, sacred music, destructive gossip, the 60th anniversary of the council's closure.

1 December, 2025

Pope Leo XIV: does not pray in the mosque, does not visit Hagia Sophia; there are Catholics in Turkey, the synodal shenanigans, bishops who see nothing, Islam is radicalizing, Advent and the ‘ontology of desire’.

30 November, 2025

Pope Leo XIV in Nicaea: «the christological idealization», ‘Una Caro’ and the ‘explicit purpose’, the mariologists in mutiny in the Vatican, the existence of God between Aquinas and Kant, Pius XII ‘the enemy of Nazism’.

29 November, 2025

The tree in the square and Pope Leo XIV in Turkey, Co-Redemptrix?: no, but yes; yes but no; the Krakow of John Paul II, the Vatican prepares for » the mother of all pacifications».

28 November, 2025

Leo XIV in Turkey, the theological commission, the doctored Vatican accounts, undoing Pope Francis, denounce the Pope?, human rights violations, chastity in an unchaste world, pastoral activism.

27 November, 2025

The first trip of Leo XIV, the popemobile – ambulance, the «Praise of Monogamy» in the Vatican, Humanae Vitae is not touched, marriage in Europe, «De exorcizandis obsessis a daemonio».

26 November, 2025

The Chiclayo case surrounds León XIV, new regulation of the Roman Curia in the Vatican, Muti and Benedicto XIV, the false mercy, the ‘emerging themes’ of the synod, Thanks, Heralds!

25 November, 2025

«Singing is for those who love», «Unitate fidei» by Leo XIV: «We believe in Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God, who came down from heaven for our salvation», the Vatican and the house of Jazz, the Anglicans become Catholics.

24 November, 2025

Christ the King Sunday, the ghosts of Chiclayo pursue Leo XIV, abuses in Spain and first accused bishop, the Catholic prince of Monaco, the praise of monogamy, there are Catholics in Germany!

23 November, 2025

The Pope with the USA youth, the forgotten ‘salus animarum’, between Zuppi and Leo XIV, the post-Vatican II challenges, Mexico backtracks, Zen and the death of the Church, the chaotic legacy of Pope Francis.

22 November, 2025