Abstract The election of Joseph Aoun as Lebanon‘s president in January 2025, following a protracted vacancy that paralyzed institutional functions, marked a pivotal juncture in the nation’s post-conflict trajectory, yet it was the arrival of Pope Leo XIV on November 30, 2025, that crystallized the fragile aspirations for interconfessional harmony amid unrelenting socioeconomic devastation and … Leggi tutto Papal Diplomacy in Lebanon’s Confessional Crucible: Symbolic Unity and Geopolitical Imperatives in 2025