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USA: Catholics Make a Positive Impact by Showing Solidarity with the Church in Latin America

Last year, the collection delivered more than $6.5 million in grants to help people who reside in regions where poverty, political and religious persecution, and other hardships make it difficult for the Church to support itself.

Dec 28, 2023 23:46

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians

170 Christians killed by Muslims at Christmas: homes, crops, churches and clinics set on fire

Attacks in 26 communities between December 23 and 26 resulted in at least 170 deaths. Houses and corn crops were set on fire, as well as churches and clinics.

Dec 28, 2023 23:44

ZENIT Staff

General Audience•Pope Francis

The Pope’s catechesis on the custody of the heart

Pope’s General Audience December 27, 2023: safeguarding the heart

Dec 27, 2023 00:36

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

Analysis on Same-Sex Couples: Same Doctrine, New Attitude

This is the key question of the controversy. Is it possible that intimate or romantic love between two people of the same sex, which by its nature cannot tend to marriage, be considered genuine or good? There is here a profoundly complex question. But it’s clear that not everything in the life of a couple is determined by sexual relations, no matter how relevant they can be. Hence, that cannot be our only element of judgment.

Dec 26, 2023 22:38

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

Fiducia Supplicans: To Bless or Not to Bless Same-Sex Couples?

The priests and professors of theology and bioethics analyze the controversial reception of the Declaration and how it is fundamentally in continuity with the Church’s doctrine on marriage and sexuality, while developing and enriching our understanding of blessings.

Dec 26, 2023 22:34

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

Pope Francis’ Great Christmas Message for Those Who Do Not Have Joy or Peace

The Holy Father’s message on the occasion of the Christmas Urbi et Orbi Blessing

Dec 26, 2023 22:21

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

In What God Do We Believe? The Pope’s Great Question and Reflection on Christmas Eve

Pope Francis’ homily during Holy Mass on Christmas Eve

Dec 26, 2023 22:15

ZENIT Staff

Spirituality

From Nazareth to Bethlehem: the 2023rd Christmas

Commentary on the Gospel of Sunday, December 24, 2023. IV Sunday of Advent and Christmas 2023

Dec 21, 2023 02:10

ZENIT Staff

Controversies•Local Church

Cardinal of Kinshasa asks all African episcopates to make common pronouncement on gay blessings

Letter from the President of the Symposium of Catholic Bishops of Africa and Madagascar to the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar on the Declaration «Fiducia Suplicans».

Dec 21, 2023 01:58

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Rome

Rome: Pope Francis goes to south city parish to speak with priests

Pope Francis meets with some priests of the Diocese of Rome at the Pastoral Center Santa Gianna Beretta Molla. The pontiff spoke with the priests of the XXVII prefecture and the parish priests of the southern sector of the diocese of Rome.

Dec 21, 2023 01:56

ZENIT Staff

Rome