Asia’s Oldest Seminary Turns 360 Years: Where Is It?

Oct 19, 2025 06:41

Rafael Llanes

The General College for priestly formation in Pnang, Malaysia, celebrates its 360th anniversary Photo: Asia News

Local Church

Artistic and religious catastrophe: important Italian monastery (where Carlo Acutis made his first communion) catches fire

Founded in 1628, Bernaga was more than an architectural landmark. For generations it had been a living fragment of Catholic heritage, a space where time seemed to slow to the rhythm of the bell

Oct 14, 2025 17:23

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Vocations

One in five Catholics worldwide is African, as is one in three seminarians: the impressive statistics of African Catholicism

Africa Becomes the Beating Heart of Catholic Growth

Oct 14, 2025 17:14

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Young People

Northern Ireland’s Youth Spark Unexpected Religious Revival

The survey offers an optimistic counterpoint to the narrative of a faith in decline

Oct 13, 2025 11:15

Elizabeth Owens

Local Church

Bishops in Kenya launch brand of wine for Mass: the existing brand lost its sacred character

The directive, unveiled on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, marks the end of a troubling chapter in which the same wine consecrated at Mass was being casually poured in bars, hotels, and supermarkets across the country

Oct 13, 2025 11:06

Elizabeth Owens

Local Church•Religious Freedom

Washington government will no longer imprison priests who refuse to violate the seal of confession

The backlash was immediate and intense. Washington’s Catholic bishops, joined by Orthodox churches, launched parallel lawsuits in both of the state’s federal districts, arguing that the measure struck at the very heart of religious freedom

Oct 13, 2025 11:04

Tim Daniels

Photo Gallery: Leo XIV Now Has An Official Mosaic to Enrich St. Paul’s Basilica, and This Is How He Reacted When It Was Shown to Him

Just over eight months after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican Mosaic Workshop has completed the mosaic portrait for the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, at the request of the Archpriest of the Basilica, Cardinal James Michael Harvey.

How Jesus Christ transforms man’s relationship with God, according to Pope Leo XIV

Pope’s general audience, January 14, 2026, on the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum on Divine Revelation

Asia’s Oldest Seminary Turns 360 Years: Where Is It?

USA: Bishop Chairmen Respond to Administration’s Announcement of Expansion of Access to IVF and Fertility Treatments

The bells of two beautiful churches destroyed (and now restored) after the passage of Islamism in Iraq ring once again

England, Belgium, and Germany: the three “most inclusive” countries for LGBT Catholics, according to a study

Graffiti inside Canterbury Anglican Cathedral (with permission from the gay rector) divides public opinion

Vatican suspends training at major seminary in Congo amid growing division in local Church

These are the 10 bishops who are candidates to lead the Catholic Church in the United States for the next three years

Artistic and religious catastrophe: important Italian monastery (where Carlo Acutis made his first communion) catches fire

One in five Catholics worldwide is African, as is one in three seminarians: the impressive statistics of African Catholicism

Northern Ireland’s Youth Spark Unexpected Religious Revival

Bishops in Kenya launch brand of wine for Mass: the existing brand lost its sacred character

Washington government will no longer imprison priests who refuse to violate the seal of confession