One in two British plan to attend church at Christmas, according to survey

Dec 19, 2025 11:31

Elizabeth Owens

45 per cent of adults say they plan to attend a church service or Christmas-related religious event this year

Good News•Local Church•Virgin Mary

Attendance record broken at Basilica of Guadalupe on December 12, 2025. President of Mexico speaks with the Pope

Beyond the numbers, church leaders have paid close attention to what pilgrims bring with them interiorly. Mexico’s bishops have noted that petitions to the Virgin increasingly reflect anxieties about violence and insecurity, a concern that cuts across regions and social classes

Dec 12, 2025 19:20

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

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

Overall, 52 percent of Catholic voters report a favorable view of Trump, with 37 percent holding an unfavorable one. Among white Catholics, approval rises to nearly 58 percent, while Latino Catholics remain closely divided

Dec 12, 2025 19:18

Tim Daniels

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

Local Church

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris surpasses the Louvre Museum in visitor numbers: here are the figures

Notre Dame is once again the beating heart of the city.

Dec 11, 2025 16:09

ZENIT Staff

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

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

One in two British plan to attend church at Christmas, according to survey

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

Trump Administration’s Anti-Immigration Czar, a Catholic, Speaks Out Against US Church’s Message

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

The 25-35 Generation Demands Pastoral Care That Listens, Welcomes, and Accompanies

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

Attendance record broken at Basilica of Guadalupe on December 12, 2025. President of Mexico speaks with the Pope

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

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris surpasses the Louvre Museum in visitor numbers: here are the figures

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