Grandmother arrested for praying outside a clinic where babies are killed and carrying a sign

Sep 29, 2025 17:19

ZENIT Staff

Docherty has been charged with breaching the “buffer zone.” Photo: ADF

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Pro Life•Vatican Diplomacy

Andorra will approve abortion despite the fact that its head of state is a Catholic bishop

Josep-Lluis Serrano Pentinat, the recently installed bishop of Urgell and, by virtue of that role, co-prince of Andorra, now finds himself at the center of an unfolding political and moral drama

Sep 26, 2025 19:13

Covadonga Asturias

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Image of Christ scourged, destroyed by Jewish extremist, reinstalled in Jerusalem

The restoration, entrusted to the Spanish restorer Pedro Escudero, was a work of patience and skill. For two months, day after day, Escudero rebuilt the missing parts, strengthened the broken legs and brought back the brightness of the original colors, up to the final varnishing

Sep 26, 2025 19:01

ZENIT Staff

Gender Ideology•Local Church

U.S. Bishops Enter Supreme Court Clash Over Transgender Athletes and Women’s Sports

The bishops argue that existing state laws protecting female-only teams are constitutionally sound, and that undoing them would cause “disastrous practical consequences” for Catholic schools and institutions

Sep 25, 2025 17:42

Tim Daniels

Local Church

Four nuns, including the superior general of the Order, die in tragic accident

The sisters had been in the diocese for the perpetual profession of three of their members, a joyful celebration held on Saturday. On Sunday morning, 15 September, they visited the Bishop’s residence in Kahama to bid farewell before traveling toward Mwanza. It was during their final leg of the journey, from Bukumbi – Mwanza to the airport, that the accident occurred

Sep 24, 2025 18:34

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

This is the mental health campaign launched by the Catholic Church in the United States

“Healing and Hope” is taken from the National Catholic Mental Health Campaign’s introductory statement authored by Archbishop Borys Gudziak and Bishop Robert Barron, who wrote: “As pastors, we want to emphasize this point to anyone who is suffering from mental illness or facing mental health challenges: nobody and nothing can alter or diminish your God-given dignity. You are a beloved child of God, a God of healing and hope.”

Sep 24, 2025 18:29

ZENIT Staff

Why is Christian archaeology important? Pope Leo XIV provides these answers

Address of the Pope to the professors and students of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology

What you should know about Pope Leo XIV’s letter on Christian archaeology

The letter repeatedly emphasizes archaeology’s capacity to inspire hope. Modern technologies capable of recovering microscopic details or reconstructing damaged inscriptions remind scholars that even the most neglected materials can reveal unexpected depths

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