China: out of top ten countries with most Christians, first place in people not affiliated with a religion

Jul 19, 2025 22:22

Many Chinese engage in spiritual practices or identify with religious traditions without adopting the formal label of “zongjiao.” Photo: Asia Times

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

ZENIT Staff

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

Analysis Opinion•Causes of Saints

Who Is Afraid of Catholic Saints? A Strange Campaign Against Carlo Acutis

The Italian teenager is set to be canonized in September. Progressive Catholics and secular journalists are opposing the canonization. Why?

Jul 09, 2025 22:28

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Vocations

Ordinations Across a Shifting Continent: A Fragmented Yet Revealing Portrait of Catholic Priesthood in Europe, 2025

According to the Vatican’s own «Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae», the number of priests in Europe declined by 1.6% in 2023 alone. That same year, Europe still held 38.1% of the world’s priests—but that share is steadily shrinking.

Jul 09, 2025 22:20

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Analysis Opinion•Local Church

Media obsession with ‘wicked nuns’ upended by Irish report on Tuam mother and baby home

Some of the accounts depict miserable conditions that were both physically and emotionally chilly. Several eyewitnesses mention Sr Hortense, who ran the home for most of its existence – but inconveniently for the current narrative, they praise her. One eyewitness says: “Sister Hortense loved children and helped out with them”.

Jul 06, 2025 23:34

ZENIT Staff

Amid the polarization between Trump and Leo XIV, U.S. police respond to a bomb threat at the home of the Pope’s brother

Police in New Lenox, a suburban community outside Chicago, responded on the evening of April 15 at approximately 6:30 p.m. to reports of a bomb threat at the home of John Prevost, one of the Pope’s two older brothers

Leo XIV on TIME magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people

Pope Benedict XVI appeared three times, while Francis was featured on six occasions, reflecting different phases in the Church’s engagement with global issues

China: out of top ten countries with most Christians, first place in people not affiliated with a religion

Ireland: Excavations Continue in Tuam, Searching for Church Culprits

U.S. Catholic priests write to Pope asking for just canonical process when they receive accusations

Married Fatherhood Is Key to Solving the Masculinity Crisis

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

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

International Trans Lobby gives up on SCOTUS cases

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

An Open Letter to the Bishops of Latin America

Who Is Afraid of Catholic Saints? A Strange Campaign Against Carlo Acutis

Ordinations Across a Shifting Continent: A Fragmented Yet Revealing Portrait of Catholic Priesthood in Europe, 2025

Media obsession with ‘wicked nuns’ upended by Irish report on Tuam mother and baby home