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Pope Leo XIV walks to preside over the Holy Mass at the Waterfront, during his first apostolic journey, in Beirut, Lebanon, December 2, 2025.

Yara Nardi/Reuters

What a shot in the arm, to put it mildly, the just-concluded papal trip to Lebanon has been.

You’d have thought the pontiff was a rock star.

KL

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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