The 4 tasks Pope Leo XIV gave to the Legionaries of Christ: charism, authority, missionary unity, and synodality

Feb 19, 2026 16:17

Pope Leo XIV received in audience the Legionaries of Christ participating in the Ordinary General Chapter Photo: Vatican Media

Gender Ideology

The progressive Anglican Church decides not to bless same-sex couples (for now)

«Bishop» of London Sarah Mullally told the Synod, as reported by The Telegraph, that the Living in Love and Faith process has wounded both individuals and the institution itself. The debates, she said, have touched core theological convictions and the Church’s sense of identity

Feb 17, 2026 17:45

Elizabeth Owens

Rome

ACI Prensa and Catholic News Agency will disappear: they will be merged into the new EWTN News

The strategic shift reflects a maturation of EWTN’s news enterprise. What began as parallel regional operations reporting from the United States, Peru, the Vatican, Kenya, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Iraq is now being streamlined into a coordinated global newsroom

Feb 17, 2026 17:22

ZENIT Staff

Marriage and Family

Chinese government announces ban on online and AI content that discourages marriage or having children

By including “fear of marriage” and “childbirth anxiety” among prohibited themes, the latest campaign highlights how demographic policy has migrated into the realm of content control

Feb 17, 2026 17:05

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Pro Life

Notre Dame “Catholic” University against (at least) nine American bishops (including the president of the Episcopal Conference)

As the most prominent Catholic university in the United States, its decisions reverberate nationally and internationally. When bishops speak in unusually unified tones — at least nine within days — the signal is unmistakable: they perceive not a routine hiring matter, but a test of identity

Feb 17, 2026 16:43

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace•Religious Freedom

USA: Judge orders that migrants detained by ICE be allowed to receive ashes on Wednesday, 2026

He has ordered both sides to confer not only about Ash Wednesday but also about ongoing ministry at Broadview, including whether clergy may pray inside and outside the facility and interact directly with detainees

Feb 17, 2026 16:34

ZENIT Staff

This is what Pope Leo XIV’s tour of Italy will look like: these are the seven different cities he will visit in four months

Altogether, seven Italian destinations are scheduled before the end of August. The Vatican rarely publishes such a dense domestic agenda so far in advance. With the Holy Year 2025—during which millions of pilgrims came to Rome—now concluded, Leo XIV appears freer to move within and beyond the Eternal City

Three Areas Where the Fire of Pastoral Ministry Can Be Rekindled, According to Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV’s address to the clergy of the Diocese of Rome during a meeting in Paul VI Hall

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The 4 tasks Pope Leo XIV gave to the Legionaries of Christ: charism, authority, missionary unity, and synodality

“The missionary scope of Lent”: Pope Leo XIV’s Ash Wednesday homily, with which he opens his first Lent

What does it mean that the Church is the mystery made perceptible? Pope Leo XIV explains it

“May the Pope retain his complete freedom to speak the truth and proclaim Jesus Christ,” asks Leo XIV

Puerto Rico’s pro-life governor redefines the concept of “human being” in criminal law, opening a new phase in the abortion debate

Pope Leo XIV to Equatorial Guinea: video captures the Holy Father’s travel coordinator visiting the country ahead of a papal trip

Vatican says no to Trump and declines to join the “Board of Peace”

The progressive Anglican Church decides not to bless same-sex couples (for now)

ACI Prensa and Catholic News Agency will disappear: they will be merged into the new EWTN News

Chinese government announces ban on online and AI content that discourages marriage or having children

Notre Dame “Catholic” University against (at least) nine American bishops (including the president of the Episcopal Conference)

USA: Judge orders that migrants detained by ICE be allowed to receive ashes on Wednesday, 2026