Unusual: This Was the Pope’s Ultimatum on YouTube in Face of the Threat of a Schism in India

Dec 07, 2023 22:15

Jorge Enrique Mújica

, the Pontiff wished to communicate directly with the faithful through YouTube Photo: Vatican Media

Local Church•Young People

Pope’s Secretary of State Vindicates Value of Celibacy to 600 French Seminarians

The Holy Father Francis’ Message signed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, for the meeting with France’s seminarians

Dec 02, 2023 00:56

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

USA: Jews and Muslims support Catholics against LGBT law that imposes indoctrination in parish and school

The Michigan Legislature recently amended the Michigan Civil Rights Act to cover sexual orientation and gender identity but provided no protection for religious organizations that believe marriage between one man and one woman and the immutability of sex support human flourishing

Nov 29, 2023 23:49

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Muslim leaders join Christians in denouncing extremism

Muslims had initially found the concept of interreligious dialogue difficult to grasp, but “after several years of effort, now some of them have an understanding of what we are doing, and what we can achieve together.

Nov 29, 2023 23:47

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Local Church•Pope Francis

Five Hours with the Pope in the Vatican and “It Wasn’t to Pull Ears”: Thus Was the Meeting with the Entire Spanish Episcopate

The long conversation with Pope Francis, which lasted over two hours, focused on the Seminaries. Topics addressed, among others, were formation in the Seminaries, the pastoral experience of seminarians, and the importance of the different dimensions of formation: pastoral, spiritual, theological, human, etc.

Nov 28, 2023 16:51

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Testimonies

Israeli Army Kills Another Christian Woman in Gaza: They Shot at Those Who Came to Her Aid; Car Is Responsible for the Death Blow

Farah, single, was a music professor who played the organ in the parish. Of Greek-Orthodox origin, she spent some time in a Baptist community and later was active in the Catholic parish. “She lived, prayed and took part in everything,” said Father Gabriel Romanelli.

Nov 27, 2023 15:11

Rafael Llanes

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

Unusual: This Was the Pope’s Ultimatum on YouTube in Face of the Threat of a Schism in India

Nicaraguan Catholic Bishops Top Popularity in Recent Survey

What does Pope Francis’ letter to the convert and Nobel Laureate in Literature 2023 say?

The German Robert Barron: Monsignor Stefan Oster Says that Divisions in the German Church Are a “Disaster for the Faithful”

Poverty and mass exodus threatens future of Christianity in Syria

Bethlehem, Town of Jesus’ Birth, Will Not Be Celebrating Christmas: Here Is the Reason Why

The Presidents of the German and Polish Episcopates Confront One Another Over the German Reforms

Pope’s Secretary of State Vindicates Value of Celibacy to 600 French Seminarians

USA: Jews and Muslims support Catholics against LGBT law that imposes indoctrination in parish and school

Muslim leaders join Christians in denouncing extremism

Five Hours with the Pope in the Vatican and “It Wasn’t to Pull Ears”: Thus Was the Meeting with the Entire Spanish Episcopate

Israeli Army Kills Another Christian Woman in Gaza: They Shot at Those Who Came to Her Aid; Car Is Responsible for the Death Blow