Jorge Enrique Mújica, Author at ZENIT

Articles By Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion

A practical guide for confessors: between psychology and pastoral care. What helps and hinders the experience of forgiveness?

How the priest’s manner of hearing confessions influences the penitent. A project of the John Templeton Foundation

Feb 01, 2026 18:23

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Local Church•Vocations

This is what religious with perpetual vows in the USA are like, according to the CARA 2025 survey

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), Georgetown University’s research arm for Catholic life, has released its annual survey of women and men who professed perpetual vows in 2025 within religious institutes, provinces, or monasteries based in the United States

Jan 27, 2026 21:58

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

America’s Moral Barometer in 2025: Why Nurses Still Lead—and What the Decline of Clergy Trust Reveals

The survey functions less as a popularity contest and more as a mirror: reflecting a nation that increasingly reserves its moral admiration for those who heal, while questioning nearly everyone else

Jan 27, 2026 10:44

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Cardinals and Bishops•Pope Leo XIV

Cardinals, the first consistory of Leo XIV, and Cardinal Zen’s public objections

For now, Leo XIV appears content to listen, to slow the pace, and to allow ideas championed under his predecessor either to mature organically or quietly recede

Jan 22, 2026 19:51

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church

Three US cardinals open battle against Donald Trump

Their appeal comes as Washington faces criticism on multiple fronts: a controversial U.S. military operation in Venezuela that led to the removal and prosecution of President Nicolás Maduro; renewed threats to take control of Greenland, a resource-rich, semi-autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark and a NATO ally

Jan 20, 2026 17:53

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Good News

The Shroud of Turin goes digital: Turin officially opens an ancient relic to the world in the AI era

The digital platform now available online is an adaptation of that same experience. What visitors encountered physically on the five-meter table has been translated into a format suitable for personal screens, without losing the sense of progression and discovery

Jan 11, 2026 19:26

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Vatican Diplomacy

Investigation: How the Holy See sought a final diplomatic solution for Maduro

Far from diminishing its relevance, the Post’s investigation underscores its real value. Vatican diplomacy does not guarantee success. What it preserves is conscience

Jan 09, 2026 16:01

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Cardinals and Bishops•Pope Leo XIV

Cardinals will return to Rome for a new Consistory in June 2026 requested by Pope Leo XIV

The January gathering brought together 170 cardinals, both electors and non-electors, marking the first such assembly of Leo XIV’s pontificate. The June meeting, he explained, will not be an isolated event

Jan 08, 2026 19:26

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Vatican Diplomacy

Marco Rubio talks to Cardinal Parolin about Venezuela: this is what was said

While the Vatican has not released its own readout of the 6 January conversation, Cardinal Parolin’s long familiarity with Venezuela adds weight to the exchange

Jan 07, 2026 17:38

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Islam•Local Church•Young People

1 in 7 Muslims open to becoming Christian; 1 in 4 Catholics will leave the Church

What Germany’s Religious Numbers Really Reveal

Jan 06, 2026 09:46

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Jubilee 2025

How many pilgrims visited Rome for the 2025 Jubilee? Vatican reveals surprising figures

Europe accounted for the majority of pilgrims, with 62 percent arriving from the continent. Italy ranked first by country of origin, followed by the United States and Spain

Jan 05, 2026 16:55

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Young People

Beyond “No Religion”: Why Britain’s Young Adults Are Rethinking God, Gratitude, and Meaning

Gratitude itself proved to be a revealing lens. Asked who or what they felt grateful to, respondents most often cited nature, other people, and themselves. God ranked fourth overall, but among 18- to 34-year-olds it rose sharply

Jan 04, 2026 19:46

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Two movements of love explained by the Pope to religious: God who comes to save and man who awaits his coming

Homily of the Holy Father on the occasion of the 30th World Day of Consecrated Life

Taiwan’s president writes to Pope Leo XIV: ‘Taipei wants peace, human rights, and democracy’

The president of Taiwan wrote to the pontiff in response to the latter’s call for a «disarmed and disarming peace” in his message of 1 January. A century ago, Chiang Wei-shui promoted nonviolence in Taiwan. The island, the world’s largest semiconductor producer, shares the pontiff’s concern for growing use of artificial intelligence in armed conflicts.