Pope Francis

Pope’s First Day in Indonesia

Visit to the president, meeting with clergy, nuns and catechists mark the Pope’s first day

Sep 04, 2024 06:27

ZENIT Staff

Liturgy and Divine Worship

Questions about liturgy: A Marian Feast on a Sunday

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology and director of the Sacerdos Institute at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

Sep 03, 2024 17:47

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

The arrest of Durov (Telegram founder) in France and the paradoxes of freedom

Both the mouthpieces of Russia’s rulers and most opposition voices in Moscow reacted surprisingly as one to the arrest in France of Russian Internet tsar, to defend freedom of expression and communication. This is a sign that the ultimate weapon of war is not the assault drone or the nuclear bomb, but ideologies that distort reality.

Sep 03, 2024 17:42

ZENIT Staff

Good News•Local Church

American Catholic Publishing Housed Is Listed Among The Ten Best Places to Work, According to Fortune Magazine

What distinguishes Ascension is not only its success in the media realm, with popular podcasts such as “The Bible in a Year” and “The Catechism in a Year”, presented by Father Mike Schmitz, but also its innovative focus on the management of remote work

Sep 03, 2024 06:36

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Virgin Mary

Vatican Approves Marian Apparitions in France

Estelle’s cure, inexplicable from a medical point of view, was recognized as a miracle by the Archbishop of Bourges with the approval of the Holy Office. In her writings, Estelle described the closeness and consolation the Virgin gave her during her sufferings

Sep 03, 2024 06:24

ZENIT Staff

Angelus•Pope Francis

Biblical purity explained by the Pope in a nutshell

Allocution on the occasion of the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, September 1, 2024

Sep 01, 2024 18:47

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

3 Franciscan dimensions that the Pope asks Capuchins to discern (and that can inspire more consecrated persons)

Address of Pope Francis to the participants of the General Chapter of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins

Sep 01, 2024 18:43

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace•Local Church

Capuchin Priest Passed Himself Off as a Doctor and Nobleman to Swindle: His Order Makes Him Face Justice

The scandal came to light on August 17 when Bielecki was arrested by Federal Authorities. According to judicial documents, the friar began his scheme in 2015, introducing himself falsely as a doctor and member of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Sonderburg-Glucksburg royalty.

Sep 01, 2024 06:45

ZENIT Staff

Vatican City

Vatican goes further in clean energy: panels now also in its Museums

The Vatican’s Green Revolution: A Small State with a Big Environmental Ambition

Aug 30, 2024 15:56

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

Will the Pope dissolve the Pontifical Urbaniana University? He himself responds and gives a speech

Address of the Pope to the participants in the Plenary Session of the Dicastery for Evangelization

Aug 30, 2024 15:54

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Pope Francis

Against Pope’s opinion, Ukrainian episcopate in favor of law banning Russian Orthodox Church

The leader of the Eastern Catholic community takes a position contrary to what the Pope expressed publicly on Sunday, August 25 from St. Peter’s Square.

Aug 30, 2024 15:51

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

China and Vatican: “sinicization” is not inculturation

A true inculturation of the Gospel in China would call China and the despotic regime that currently controls it to conversion. “Sinicization,” by contrast, is a call to the kowtow, to obsequious acquiescence to the regime’s program of social control, which is essentially a refinement of what George Orwell described in the dystopian novel 1984

Aug 30, 2024 15:46

ZENIT Staff