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Pontifical Delegate for the Institute of the Incarnate Word Appoints New Council (With a Majority of External Members) and Announces New Official Website

At the center of the new arrangement is a general council whose members have been approved by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Satué, who has full governing authority over the institute, appointed five principal collaborators

Aug 21, 2026 20:03

ZENIT Staff

Good News

New platform to help clergy turn sermon archives into books

Your Book Pro, a British book-writing and publishing platform, allows Christian leaders to upload sermon recordings, transcripts, notes and existing documents. It identifies the main messages, stories, quotations and recurring themes, then suggests the strongest concepts around which a book could be built.

Aug 21, 2026 19:43

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians

Catholic church vandalized in Israel’s capital amid ongoing attacks

Israeli police arrested a local man in his twenties on August 16 on suspicion of vandalizing the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Jaffa, after several religious statues were found smashed and crosses broken

Aug 21, 2026 19:34

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace•Pope Leo XIV•Vatican Diplomacy

Lebanon Turns to the Pope: Lebanese President Visits Leo XIV Amid the Israeli Siege

On Thursday, August 20, Pope Leo XIV received Aoun at the Apostolic Palace for a private meeting lasting around half an hour. The Lebanese president then held talks with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s secretary for relations with states and international organizations

Aug 20, 2026 23:08

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Religious Freedom

Cameroon Announces the Closure of 1,400 Revivalist Churches

A Pentecostal woman killed her daughter. A minister used the tragedy as a pretext to crack down on local Pentecostals.

Aug 20, 2026 22:46

ZENIT Staff

General Audience•Pope Leo XIV

What should the music be like during Mass (or in the liturgy in general)? Leo XIV provides the answer

Pope’s General Audience, August 19, 2026, on Sacred Music

Aug 19, 2026 23:29

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

Catholic baptisms in Ireland drop 30pc in ten years

Decline driven by falling births and secularisation

Aug 19, 2026 22:31

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Justice and Peace

Israel Turns Archaeology into a Tool for Annexation: How It Seized the Site Linked to the Tomb of John the Baptist

In the West Bank, archaeology is used as a weapon of conquest; in Sebastia, a site linked to John the Baptist, Israel has moved to seize control of it. The same strategy was applied in the City of David. Science is being used for propaganda purposes, while the Palestinian Authority remains bankrupt.

Aug 19, 2026 22:28

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace•Local Church

U.S. Bishops’ Initiative to Inform Communities on the Danger of Abortion Pills Includes Prayer, Education, and Advocacy

In addition to invoking the intercession of St. Joseph, Defender of Life, participants can learn about the danger of abortion pills

Aug 19, 2026 22:21

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

How Many Catholics Support the Death Penalty? U.S. Study Releases Findings

A new Pew Research Center survey found that 65% of U.S. Catholics favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder, including 28% who say they support it strongly. Yet the position articulated repeatedly by Pope Leo XIV points in the opposite direction

Aug 19, 2026 22:06

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Holy Land

AI and materials analysis offer new insights into the Qumran scrolls

“Tracing Scribes and Scrolls” is a research project investigating the provenance of the texts from the ancient Dead Sea Library. Dating from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD, they are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Ranging from biblical books to wisdom literature, they provide a window into the pluralism of the Second Temple period.

Aug 18, 2026 18:54

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV Sued in Spanish Courts: The Case of the “Templars” Seeking Ecclesiastical Rehabilitation… and Money

At the center of the case is the suppression of the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. The modern organization presents itself as its heir and argues that Pope Clement V’s decision in 1312 was illegitimate, maintaining that the suppression took place under political pressure from King Philip IV of France.

Aug 18, 2026 17:56

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV Approves a New Bishop Appointed by the Chinese Government for a Diocese in That Country

The episcopal ordination of Fr Paul Liu Honggang, 56, took place today, the first in over 20 years for this diocese in Shanxi. The appointment was made under the China-Vatican agreement. After the expulsion of the missionaries, a local priest, Father Guo Yingong, kept the faith alive even during the Cultural Revolution.

Pope Leo XIV personally ordered his Dicastery for Communication to stop using works by the former Jesuit Rupnik, according to the bishop of Lourdes

The Vatican quietly removed the images in June, a decision that initially came without an official explanation. Micas’s account now provides an explanation for that change and portrays Leo as having taken a deliberate position on an issue that had become increasingly difficult for the Church to treat simply as a question of artistic preference