“It is not the Church that attracts, but Christ”: Pope Leo XIV’s first speech (translated into English) to a consistory of cardinals

Jan 08, 2026 19:15

ZENIT Staff

at the end of the first session of the first extraordinary Consistory convened by Pope Leo XIV Photo: Vatican Media

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church

Five years in El Salvador and disciple of Cardinal Cupich: this is the new archbishop of New York

For New York, the change closes a highly distinctive chapter and opens a quieter, but potentially transformative one. Hicks steps into a city defined by migration, diversity, and contradiction, where the Church’s credibility will depend less on rhetoric than on presence

Dec 18, 2025 11:14

Tim Daniels

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Religious Freedom

This is how the Venezuelan dictatorship revoked the cardinal’s passport and prevented him from leaving the country

For now, Cardinal Porras remains in Caracas, deprived of his documents and unable to fulfill obligations abroad

Dec 11, 2025 16:04

Enrique Villegas

Cardinals and Bishops

Cardinal Kurt Koch Is Appointed President of Aid to the Church in Need

Cardinal Koch, 75, succeeds Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who led ACN for 14 years as its first President, following its elevation to the status of a Foundation of Pontifical Right.

Nov 27, 2025 22:44

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Gender Ideology•Local Church•Testimonies

“Not in my name”: German bishop turns his back on document full of gender ideology from his country’s episcopate

The controversy reveals a deeper tension running through the German Church’s current path: the attempt to reconcile the universal claims of Catholic doctrine with the fluid language of the modern age

Nov 12, 2025 17:11

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church

From Oklahoma and Brownsville: these are the new bishops chosen to lead the US episcopate

The president and vice president were elected from a slate of 10 nominees

Nov 11, 2025 19:10

ZENIT Staff

One in three Mexican bishops will be replaced by Pope Leo XIV between 2026 and 2027

The generational shift is also visible in the provenance of current appointments. As of the beginning of 2026, 52.5 percent of Mexico’s bishops and archbishops were appointed by Pope Francis, 27.6 percent by Benedict XVI, 17.2 percent by John Paul II, and just 2.6 percent by Leo XIV himself. That last figure is set to rise sharply

For the first time, a Pope will address the Spanish Parliament: it will be Leo XIV during his visit to Madrid in June 2026

According to converging confirmations from parliamentary and ecclesial sources, the Vatican and the Spanish Congress have agreed to convene a joint session of both chambers of the Cortes Generales so that the Pope may address deputies and senators gathered in the hemicycle

“It is not the Church that attracts, but Christ”: Pope Leo XIV’s first speech (translated into English) to a consistory of cardinals

León XIV to cardinals: “We gather not to promote personal or group “agendas”

“Peter (The Pope) must not be unaccompanied”: Cardinal Radcliffe’s complete meditation in English to the cardinals in the Consistory

Liturgy and the Roman Curia are left out as topics for Leo XIV’s first consistory: this was discussed

Muslim radicals call for the execution of a cardinal in Iraq

These are the three topics the Pope will address with cardinals in his first consistory

This is the new Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV for London: he is from Africa, enjoys horse riding, and was a soldier

Five years in El Salvador and disciple of Cardinal Cupich: this is the new archbishop of New York

This is how the Venezuelan dictatorship revoked the cardinal’s passport and prevented him from leaving the country

Cardinal Kurt Koch Is Appointed President of Aid to the Church in Need

“Not in my name”: German bishop turns his back on document full of gender ideology from his country’s episcopate

From Oklahoma and Brownsville: these are the new bishops chosen to lead the US episcopate