Pope Leo in Lebanon and Catholics in the Middle East

This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac chat with Daniel Corrou, S.J. Father Corrou is a Jesuit priest from the USA East Province who is currently the regional director of Jesuit Refugee Service Middle East & North Africa. Father Corrou lives and works in Lebanon, where Pope Leo XIV will visit from November 30 to December 2, 2025.

Ashley, Zac and Father Corrou talk about:

- The significance of Pope Leo choosing Lebanon for one of his first papal visits

- Lebanon’s complex socio-political and religious context

- How the region has been affected by U.S. foreign aid cuts

In Signs of the Times, Ashley and Zac discuss the biggest news to come out of the U.S.C.C.B. fall meeting, held last week in Baltimore: the election of a new president and a “special message” on immigration.

In As One Friend Speaks to Another, Ashley and Zac try to find God in a board meeting.

Links for further reading: 

- Support Father Corrou’s work at the Jesuit Refugee Service

- Analysis: The U.S. bishops showed their unity on behalf of immigrants—and may have repaired their relationship to Rome

- U.S. bishops release rare message on Trump’s immigration crackdown in show of ‘fundamental unity

- New USCCB president Coakley talks immigration, Viganò criticism and Pope Leo

- Archbishop Coakley, Bishop Flores elected president and vice president of USCCB

- Pope Leo backs U.S. bishops in opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

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