Vatican Diplomacy

Israeli ambassador to the Holy See accuses Vatican newspaper of anti-Semitism

The incident stems from a column published on August 7 by Jesuit theologian David Neuhaus, a German-Israeli scholar born in South Africa to Jewish parents and a former vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics in Jerusalem

Aug 19, 2025 20:52

ZENIT Staff

Good News

One amputee, another with brain damage, and another malnourished: Vatican welcomes three children affected by the war in Gaza

With their arrival, the number of Gazan children treated at Bambino Gesù since the war’s outbreak in October 2023 has risen to twenty. Their ailments tell a story that statistics alone cannot

Aug 19, 2025 20:48

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV

How to Face Difficulties? Pope Leo Responds

The monthly magazine, “Piazza San Pietro”, also includes this month a special article on the Meeting of Fraternity, scheduled for September 12 and 13 in Rome.

Aug 18, 2025 20:54

ZENIT Staff

Angelus•Pope Leo XIV

What does it mean to be a “sign of contradiction”? Pope Leo XIV explains it

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, August 17, 2025

Aug 17, 2025 23:05

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

Meeting the World to Convert the World

The Council called the Church to convert the modern world. How? By offering Jesus Christ as the icon of a genuine humanism and the sacramental Church as the icon of authentic human community.

Aug 17, 2025 22:58

ZENIT Staff

Bioethics

U.S. to Destroy $10 Million in Contraceptives

Tammy Bruce, State Department spokesman said the sale of such contraceptives and abortifacients would violate U.S. policy that forbids U.S. financial support for abortion overseas. She also said the material could be used “in a kind of forced sterilization framework that some nations do apply” that the U.S. cannot contribute to.

Aug 17, 2025 22:48

ZENIT Staff

Homosexuality

US Human Rights Report Leaves Out LGBTs

The Washington Post wrote that this year’s “draft reports examined by the Post contain no reference to gender-based violence or violence against LGBTQ+ (sic) people.”

Aug 17, 2025 22:46

ZENIT Staff

Liturgy and Divine Worship

Questions about liturgy: Churches Named for ‘St. Mary’

Those Marian feasts which have no fixed date in the calendar can be celebrated on the feast of the Holy Name of Mary on September 12.

Aug 17, 2025 22:41

ZENIT Staff

Marriage and Family•Young People

UN Child Rights Committee Promotes Abortion, Undermines Parental Rights in New General Comment

The Committee on the Rights of the Child is the treaty body monitoring countries’ compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the UN human rights treaty ratified by the most nations—only the United States has not ratified it.

Aug 16, 2025 22:49

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV•Virgin Mary

The Pope’s first homily dedicated to the Virgin Mary on the Feast of the Assumption

Homily of Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

Aug 15, 2025 16:13

ZENIT Staff

Good News•Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Virgin Mary

The 7th shrine dedicated to Mary, mother of persecuted Christians, will open in Iraq

The new shrine will stand within the recently built Church of St. Ephrem, its focal point an icon delivered this August by Father Benedict Kiely, founder of the Vermont-based charity Nasarean.org.

Aug 15, 2025 10:06

ZENIT Staff

Vatican City

The Vatican Museums announce that Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel will be restored in 2026

For three months, scaffolding will cover the entire altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, supporting a dozen platforms where up to twelve specialists can work simultaneously

Aug 15, 2025 09:59

ZENIT Staff