Polonia: Sunday Mass Attendance Rises as Sacramental Life Continues to Thin

Dec 22, 2025 15:29

Joachin Meisner Hertz

29.6 percent of Polish Catholics eligible to attend Mass were present on an average Sunday last year

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Rome

Rome and the Church in the United States

The canard about the bishops’ alleged disunity and fractiousness is typically accompanied by other fairy tales

Dec 11, 2025 17:45

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Religious Freedom

The Gospel According to the Elves: Quebec Secularism Law Targets Even Baby Jesus

Quebec’s new “Secularism 2.0” law is less about neutrality than about neutering religion, reducing faith to folklore while policing prayer out of public life.

Dec 10, 2025 18:17

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Marriage and Family

China’s Reported Marriage Surge: A Turning Point or a Mirage of Reform?

To address a significant demographic issue, the authorities promote marriage and report an improvement. It may not be real.

Dec 10, 2025 18:14

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Young People

This is the first country to legally ban social media for children, and this is what studies say about it

The measure did not emerge in a vacuum. For years, Australian parents have voiced concern over the stark gap between their children’s physical maturity and the psychological intensity of online environments

Dec 06, 2025 15:47

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Ecumenism

From the revocation of anathema in Nicaea, 17 centuries after the first Ecumenical Synod

‘The theological dialogue that the Orthodox Church conducts with the Roman Catholic Church, as well as with the rest of the Christian world, in no way seeks to reach a compromise or to betray Orthodoxy.’

Dec 03, 2025 17:44

ZENIT Staff

This is what the letter says—the surprising and important letter that Leo XIV sent to the cardinals ahead of the Consistory in June 2026

Letter from Pope Leo XIV to the cardinals ahead of the upcoming consistory in 2026

Although there are no diplomatic relations, the President of the National Assembly of Vietnam invites Pope Leo XIV to visit the country

The President of the National Assembly in Hanoi presented the Pope with a letter from the President, who is now firmly at the helm of power in Vietnam. It was precisely internal disagreements over the local political balance of power that had slowed down the preparations for the visit, which is so eagerly awaited by the Catholic community. Cardinal Parolin is due to visit soon to establish full diplomatic relations. The possibility of 2027, when the Pope is already expected in Seoul for World Youth Day.

Polonia: Sunday Mass Attendance Rises as Sacramental Life Continues to Thin

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This is what happens to a woman who has an abortion: results of peer-reviewed scientific study on post-abortion syndrome published

Syria: in 14 years, the Christian presence has fallen by 84%: these are the numbers

The return of confession: a sacrament regaining its place. What a French study says

American Catholics are in favor of the death penalty. This is according to a recently published survey

One year after his election, this is what polls say about Catholic support for Trump in the US and his immigration policy

Rome and the Church in the United States

The Gospel According to the Elves: Quebec Secularism Law Targets Even Baby Jesus

China’s Reported Marriage Surge: A Turning Point or a Mirage of Reform?

This is the first country to legally ban social media for children, and this is what studies say about it

From the revocation of anathema in Nicaea, 17 centuries after the first Ecumenical Synod