Pope Leo XIV comments on Trump’s peace plan for Gaza (and other current topics of general interest)

Oct 01, 2025 10:45

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV stepped out of Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo Photo: Vatican Media

Local Church•Vocations

Poland 2025: European leader in number of vocations

This year’s class is made up of 141 diocesan priests and 67 men from religious orders. Tarnów again leads the nation, with 13 ordinations, a figure that in most European dioceses would be unthinkable

Sep 28, 2025 19:42

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Homosexuality•Local Church•Pope Leo XIV

On the controversy in the German episcopate regarding Leo XIV’s clear “no” to liturgical blessings for gay couples

The Pope’s remarks on same-sex blessings were characteristically nuanced but left little room for ritual experimentation. He acknowledged that all persons may receive God’s blessing but cautioned against the creation of liturgical formulas for couples, a practice he said runs contrary to the 2023 Vatican declaration «Fiducia Supplicans».

Sep 27, 2025 19:38

Jorge Enrique Mújica

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

A Pope’s Letter to a Newspaper: Leo XIV Reflects on 150 Years of Journalism in a Changing World

Another dimension Leo XIV emphasized was the human element of storytelling. Technology may accelerate the flow of information, he observed, but experience and judgment remain essential for interpreting events and giving them meaning

The Middle East, the spread of war, and the position of the Pope and the Catholic Church

As the Middle East faces the prospect of a broader regional war, the Vatican’s hope remains that diplomacy — not missiles — will ultimately shape the future of the region.

Pope Leo XIV comments on Trump’s peace plan for Gaza (and other current topics of general interest)

USA: Pro-abortion politician declines Cardinal Cupich award: Pope Leo intervenes and Archbishop of Chicago issues this statement

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

Cardinal Cupich Divides the U.S. Episcopate by Persisting in Awarding a Pro-Abortionist Democratic Senator

The Towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Reopen to the Public

World’s Largest Statue Dedicated to the Virgin Mary Is Inaugurated in Brazil

Assisi: Meloni to attend St. Francis’ Day celebrations after it is approved as a national holiday

Poland 2025: European leader in number of vocations

On the controversy in the German episcopate regarding Leo XIV’s clear “no” to liturgical blessings for gay couples

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

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

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