Analysis Opinion

Why AI Needs Religion & Spirituality: Reflections on the AI, Religion and Spirituality Manifesto

The rapidly moving developments in AI and health include last week’s announcement by Microsoft that their MAI-DxO AI health diagnostic system reportedly diagnosed patients 4 times more accurately than human doctors. This, combined this other applications such as ElliQ’s AI health sidekick, threatens to replace personal interaction with AI robotic systems that overlook spiritual realities, not to mention opens the door for misuse.

Jul 14, 2025 12:07

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Persecuted Christians

Poland: half of the Catholic clergy have been attacked and/or assaulted in the last year

The findings are based on a CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing) survey completed by 996 Catholic priests. Conducted by ISKK, the study offers one of the most detailed quantitative snapshots to date of aggression directed at clergy in Poland

Jul 14, 2025 12:05

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Gender Ideology

International Trans Lobby gives up on SCOTUS cases

If in good faith they believed rights based on “gender identity” or “sexual orientation” exist, they nevertheless chose not to claim so before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguably the most powerful court in the world. The absence of such arguments suggests that global homosexual/transgender lobby groups and their backers in government and academia have opted for a strategic withdrawal from the U.S. Supreme Court as a venue to advance their agenda

Jul 14, 2025 12:03

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Liturgy and Divine Worship

Questions about liturgy: Kneeling at the Consecration

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology and director of the Sacerdos Institute at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

Jul 14, 2025 11:41

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Local Church

Philippine Bishops Sound Alarm on Online Gambling Crisis: “A New Virus Destroying Our People”

The moral gravity of the bishops’ appeal is unmistakable. It denounces the illusion of online betting as mere entertainment or a harmless pastime, insisting instead that it is «a sophisticated trap» engineered to ensnare vulnerable populations—especially the young and the poor

Jul 13, 2025 19:17

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Angelus•Pope Leo XIV

How to inherit eternal life? Pope Leo XIV responds in a brief and timely manner

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, July 13, 2025

Jul 13, 2025 19:08

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Pope Leo XIV

The parable of the Good Samaritan explained beautifully and concretely by Pope Leo XIV

Homily of Pope Leo XIV in the Pontifical Parish of St. Thomas of Villanova

Jul 13, 2025 19:02

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Analysis Opinion

Against the Dalai Lama, the CCP Deploys the False Panchen Lama

The impostor traveled to Tibet in an attempt to divert attention from His Holiness’ 90th birthday in Dharamsala. He failed.

Jul 11, 2025 18:01

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Holy Land•Persecuted Christians

Fires set by Jewish settlers threaten the town of Taybeh, the only completely Christian town in the world

Tuesday, July 8, Israeli settlers set several fires near the town cemetery and the ancient 5th-century Church of St. George, threatening one of the oldest religious sites in Palestine. This was reported by priests Daoud Khoury, Jacques-Noble Abed, and Bashar Fawdeh, who oversee the three Christian communities of Taybeh (and thus the Greek Orthodox, Latin Catholic, and Greek Melkite believers).

Jul 11, 2025 17:58

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Good News•Testimonies

Irish nun receives Presidential Award in Zambia

She is the second Irish nun to receive this award from the President of Zambia in recent years Last year, the award was conferred on Sr Mary Courtney of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa and a native of Ballyjamesduff in Co. Cavan.

Jul 11, 2025 17:56

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Analysis Opinion•Documents

An Open Letter to the Bishops of Latin America

“If I have dared, dear bishops, to address you so directly, it is because for a long time I have watched with deep concern the repeated signs that our beloved Church is in serious danger—the danger of drifting away from her spiritual core, to her own detriment and to the detriment of the world”

Jul 11, 2025 17:54

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

PHOTO GALLERY: For the first time a Papal Nuncio presides at Mass in Canterbury’s Anglican cathedral

Although many Catholic Masses have been held at the famous Anglican cathedral, this was a historic ‘first’ in that it was the first time a papal nuncio had celebrated Mass there. It is particularly significant as a papal legate was said to have been present when the saint’s body was moved.

Jul 10, 2025 21:58

ZENIT Staff