To Whom Are Condolences Offered When a Pope Dies and, Specifically, Benedict XVI?

Jan 03, 2023 21:59

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pontifical Family of Benedict XVI

Analysis Opinion•Pope Francis

Did the Pope Submit a Renunciation? Text in English of Paul VI’s Renunciation

The renunciation to which the Pope alludes was submitted at the beginning of his Pontificate, that is, shortly after he was elected. However, it is a renunciation (the technical word is resignation) for a specific cause: impediment. Paul VI also wrote one, and we present it here, for the first time, in English.

Dec 22, 2022 15:22

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Church and World

Patriarch Bartholomew asks Rome to help Constantinople and Moscow get rid of political burdens

He challenges his Moscow counterpart Kirill on the historical ideology of ‘panslavism’. No to nationalist heresy, yes to original apostolic universalism. In the Russian Orthodox world religion is exploited for political and ideological reasons. The help of the Church of Rome is needed to overcome the differences between «Greeks and Russians».

Dec 19, 2022 02:31

Redacción zenit

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

USA: Survey Shows That Those with “No Religion” Aren’t Increasing

A Gallup poll shows a stabilization that doesn’t correspond with affirmations of increased secularization

Dec 13, 2022 19:32

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Pope Francis

Francis: The Pope Who Wept before the Virgin (and Before the Eyes of All)

What do the tears of a Pope say to us and why did they move us so much? Perhaps because the Holy Father has reflected, and without a script, something so close to the experience of many of us.

Dec 10, 2022 21:18

Jorge Enrique Mújica

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Leo XIV Becomes the Most Highly Rated International Leader in France, According to New Research

According to a Cluster 17 poll conducted on October 14 and 15, 65 percent of respondents expressed a “very good” or “fairly good” opinion of Leo XIV, making him the most positively regarded foreign political figure among those surveyed. The findings come weeks after his historic visit to France, during which more than one million people gathered in Paris, Lourdes and Metz.

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet, Briefly Explained by Pope Leo XIV

Address on the Occasion of the Angelus Prayer on Sunday, October 18, 2026

To Whom Are Condolences Offered When a Pope Dies and, Specifically, Benedict XVI?

Ratzinger and a Vision of Politics

Ratzinger and Liturgy. Fundamental Principles

Editorial: Benedict the Great: His Spiritual and Theological Legacy

What Would Happen or What Protocol Would Be Activated on the Death of Benedict XVI?

In Two Years a Woman Could Be Head of a Dicastery, But of Which One?

The Post-Christian condition atheist, indifferent, or something else?

Did the Pope Submit a Renunciation? Text in English of Paul VI’s Renunciation

Patriarch Bartholomew asks Rome to help Constantinople and Moscow get rid of political burdens

USA: Survey Shows That Those with “No Religion” Aren’t Increasing

Francis: The Pope Who Wept before the Virgin (and Before the Eyes of All)