Ceasefire on the Brink: Pope Leo XIV, Global Powers and the Moral Battle Over War in the Middle East

Apr 09, 2026 12:25

Pope Leo XIV intervened with unusual immediacy and clarity speaking at the end of his general audience on April 8 in St. Peter’s Square Photo: Vatican Media

Pro Life

Chemical Abortions Increase by 25% Thanks to Pills: These Are the Numbers

The data further reinforces the status of abortion pills as the most important tool of the abortion lobby to perpetuate abortion on demand and undermine pro-life laws.

Apr 08, 2026 10:55

Rafael Manuel Tovar

General Audience•Pope Leo XIV

Holiness and the Evangelical Counsels Explained in Light of the Second Vatican Council by Pope Leo XIV

The Pope’s General Audience, April 8, 2026, on holiness and the evangelical counsels

Apr 08, 2026 10:49

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

From fragmented data to digital evangelization: Seoul’s Church turns to AI under the inspiration of Carlo Acutis

These services are expected to go beyond simple information delivery. The long-term objective is to create systems capable of providing responses and guidance autonomously, adapting to user needs in real time

Apr 08, 2026 10:40

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace•Local Church•Religious Freedom

Pulpits, politics and the limits of free speech: a US court ruling keeps a 70-year barrier in place while Washington prepares new guidance

The decision means that the Johnson Amendment remains fully in force. However, the dismissal “without prejudice” leaves open alternative legal pathways

Apr 08, 2026 10:34

Tim Daniels

Cardinals and Bishops•Justice and Peace•Local Church

The highest-ranking military bishop in the United States states that Trump’s war in Iran does not meet the criteria for a “just war”

In an interview aired on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on April 5, recorded three days earlier, Broglio offered an unusually direct assessment

Apr 07, 2026 18:16

Tim Daniels

Pope Leo XIV announces that he will speak regularly on the liturgy: and this is his first address

General Audience with the Pope, May 20, 2026, on the first document promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, on the Sacred Liturgy

PHOTO GALLERY: A look back at the visit of the leader of Lebanon’s Armenian community to Pope Leo XIV

Address by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church—Seat of Cilicia (Lebanon)—and his entourage

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Ceasefire on the Brink: Pope Leo XIV, Global Powers and the Moral Battle Over War in the Middle East

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Pulpits, politics and the limits of free speech: a US court ruling keeps a 70-year barrier in place while Washington prepares new guidance

The highest-ranking military bishop in the United States states that Trump’s war in Iran does not meet the criteria for a “just war”