Good News•Local Church

According to Data of the Israeli Government, the Christian Population Is Growing in Israel

With a 70.5% participation in the labour force in 2022, Christians show a high level of economic activity. However, their participation decreases to 62.2% when Arab Christians are observed specifically.

Jan 04, 2024 00:34

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

Pope Francis to German Catholics: Two Aspects Not to Go Astray in the Synodal Path

Pope highlights care of the spiritual dimension and the universal dimension to German communicators

Jan 04, 2024 00:30

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

Georg Gänswein, Benedict XVI’s secretary, again before the Pope Francis

On December 31, 2023, he presided at a Mass in the Vatican Basilica on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Benedict XVI.

Jan 03, 2024 23:48

ZENIT Staff

General Audience•Pope Francis

A great and simple catechesis of the Pope on spiritual combat

Pope’s General Audience January 3, 2024 on Spiritual Combat

Jan 03, 2024 23:43

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

Argentina: In the Era of President Milei, the Catholic Church Gives Up State Funds

This step marks the fulfilment of the announcement made by the Argentine Episcopal Conference in 2018, expressing the intention to give up, gradually, State funds, which at the time represented some 130 million pesos annually.

Jan 03, 2024 12:57

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Documents

Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issues new clarification on blessings to gay and irregular couples

Press Release from the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the Reception of «Fiducia Supplicans»

Jan 03, 2024 12:56

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

Mindfulness and the Catholic Faith: Psychologists’ Research and Experts’ Testimonies Warn Against the Practice

A method with a marketing orchestration that intervenes in the psycho-spiritual sphere, in the order of beliefs, in people’s psyche, which is of clear Buddhist root, able to attract followers also in some Universities, to permeate the academic arena.

Jan 02, 2024 23:33

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Woman

Prefect of Dicastery for Doctrine of the Faith: there will be no priestly ordination of women

The Prefect of the Dicastery for the Faith who reinforces what was anticipated by the Secretary of State: he rules out a different moral evaluation of homosexual acts and the possibility of priestly ordination of women.

Jan 02, 2024 00:27

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

German police manage to prevent Islamist attack on Catholic cathedral in Cologne

Four individuals have been detained in connection with a suspected attack plan. Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne expressed gratitude to the security forces during the New Year’s Eve Mass for their dedication to ensuring religious freedom amidst threats.

Jan 02, 2024 00:22

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

Homosexual Couples: Catholic Churches in Asia and the Fiducia Supplicans declaration

Mumbai Cardinal Owald Gracias: «Blessing for all is part of our spirituality. The Vatican document affirms an attitude that should be obvious, it does not change the doctrine on marriage as those who misunderstand it claim’. Singapore Cardinal William Goh: «We show mercy but we do not approve of same-sex unions because without truth, love is compromised».

Jan 02, 2024 00:19

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

Pope asks all Catholics to understand and live «the gift of diversity in the Church»

In The Pope Video for January, Pope Francis encourages us “to recognize the gift of different charisms within the Christian communities, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions within the Catholic Church.” The Holy Father’s intention becomes a moving appeal: “There is no need to fear the diversity of charisms in the Church.” Pope Francis acknowledges the contribution the Eastern Churches offer: “They have their own traditions, their own characteristic liturgical rites, yet they maintain the unity of the faith. They strengthen it, not divide it.”

Jan 02, 2024 00:15

ZENIT Staff

Angelus•Pope Francis

Mary, Mother of Silence (and a tribute to mothers around the world): Pope’s brief meditation as 2024 begins

Allocution on the occasion of the recitation of the Angelus on Monday, January 1, 2024, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

Jan 01, 2024 00:52

ZENIT Staff