Vatican City

Vatican telescope searches for new worlds: here’s what it has found

At the moment, what the stars are made of is being investigated since it is suspected that these bodies host their own exoplanets.

Mar 21, 2023 10:08

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Popes•Rome•Testimonies

Five People Can Inherit From Benedict XVI

Monsignor Gänswein stressed that it’s “not about copyright stuff.” He explained that “everything that has to do with books, everything that has to do with his intellectual work has already been clarified.”

Mar 21, 2023 09:50

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Local Church

U.S. Bishops’ Doctrine Committee Issues Guidance to Catholic Health Care Institutions on Respecting the Fundamental Order of the Human Body

These interventions involve the use of surgical or chemical techniques that aim to exchange the sex characteristics of a patient’s body for those of the opposite sex or for simulations thereof.

Mar 20, 2023 15:29

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace•Persecuted Christians

Green light for trial of student banned from U.S. university for expressing religious views

Two weeks after receiving a letter from ADF attorneys informing the university that stifling DeJong’s speech based on her viewpoint is unconstitutional, officials finally disclosed to DeJong the materials underlying the no-contact orders and related investigation.

Mar 20, 2023 15:26

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Local Church

French Bishop Promotes Change in the Church’s Doctrine on Homosexuality

As reported by the National Catholic Register, the discreet doctrinal rewriting movement was already raised with the Pope during the ad limina visit of the French episcopate, in September 2021.

Mar 20, 2023 14:33

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Local Church•Popes

The John Paul II Case: This Is the Message that the Polish Bishops Asked to Be Read in All Parishes

“Are we going to allow ourselves to be deprived of this treasure on the basis of a journalistic discussion of materials produced by the Communist Security Service?” The Polish bishops ask.

Mar 19, 2023 21:53

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Angelus

Different Reactions of the Human Heart to Miracles: Pope’s Explanation 

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, March 19, 2023.

Mar 19, 2023 15:33

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Spirituality

The eyes that are healed and purified, let the heart to see the light of Christ.

The light of Christ is given to us to live as children of light after He has healed the eyes of our heart that, because they were » sick”, were making our soul blind.

Mar 19, 2023 10:14

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Local Church

President of US Bishops Encourages German Catholics to Be Faithful to the Pope

Broglio highlighted the ecumenical work of the Second Vatican Council in its intention to unite all Christians and for this reason he asked himself «Why would anyone want to take a step back and separate from the Catholic Church?»

Mar 15, 2023 16:05

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General Audience

What Does It Mean To Be Apostles? Pope Francis Explains The Call to Be Apostles

General audience of the Pope Wednesday March 15 on being apostles in a missionary church.

Mar 15, 2023 04:33

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Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Persecuted Christians

USA: 300th Catholic Church Attacked Since 2020

CatholicVote has been tracking the attacks since the civil unrest that followed the death of George Floyd in May 2020. The riots started a wave of violence and vandalism against Catholic churches that only accelerated after the unrest died down.

Mar 15, 2023 04:28

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Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Synods

Statements of A German Bishop Who Voted Against the Texts of the 5th German Synodal Assembly

The bishop considered that there is still a need for renewal, deepening and strengthening of the faith. And the fact that this issue has not been discussed in any assembly shows that there are also structural problems.

Mar 14, 2023 14:45

ZENIT Staff