Does a pontificate influence LGBT+ acceptance by the clergy? A study provides the answer

Sep 23, 2025 17:14

Valentina di Giorgio

The timing of the study aligns almost uncannily with Leo XIV’s early remarks

Analysis Opinion•Gender Ideology•Justice and Peace

UNICEF spends hundreds of millions of dollars promoting sexually explicit content, according to research

It should be understood that UNICEF produces and promotes this material without the explicit approval of UN Member States as a body. What’s more, likely, most governments of the UN General Assembly disapprove of this material

Aug 24, 2025 12:42

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

Can Transsexuals Be Baptized?

As the LGBTQ ideology comes increasingly to resemble a rival religious movement, we should recognize that it poses similar obstacles to discipleship. The movement possesses its own symbols, holy seasons, rites of initiation, social teachings, speech and purity codes, and inquisitorial methods. In “gender reassignment,” it promises a new identity, much as baptism does

Aug 23, 2025 01:05

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Cardinals and Bishops•Young People

Young people looking for answers in a messy world are turning to the Catholic Church

A recent study by Harvard University confirmed the trend among the so-called Generation Z, which saw a 6% increase from 2022 to 2023 in those identifying as Catholic.

Aug 23, 2025 01:02

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

Online masses are less effective than in-person masses, according to a study by Duke University

The study, published in the «Psychology of Religion and Spirituality», recruited 43 Christians in North Carolina to participate in two worship services — one physically attended, the other streamed online

Aug 21, 2025 17:00

Jorge Enrique Mújica

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

Peruvian government announces Pope’s trip; Vatican officially announces he will not visit the United States

On February 8, the Holy See confirmed that Leo XIV, the first American-born pope, has no plans to travel to the United States during the coming year, despite the symbolic coincidence of the country’s semiquincentennial

Joy, the taste of life, and how to rekindle it: a simple meditation by Pope Leo XIV

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, February 8, 2026

Does a pontificate influence LGBT+ acceptance by the clergy? A study provides the answer

Study Links Traditional Eucharistic Practices to Stronger Belief in Christ’s Presence

Leo XIV, China and attention to communities suffering for their faith

«A Genocide,» — A Bishop Speaks Bluntly of the Suffering of Christians in Nigeria

Christianophobia, a Political and Media Taboo That Fuels Crimes Against Children in the United States

Faith Before Technology

One Hundred Days of Pope Leo: An Approximation

UNICEF spends hundreds of millions of dollars promoting sexually explicit content, according to research

Can Transsexuals Be Baptized?

Young people looking for answers in a messy world are turning to the Catholic Church

Online masses are less effective than in-person masses, according to a study by Duke University

Meeting the World to Convert the World