6 new ambassadors to the Vatican present themselves to the Pope

Dec 08, 2023 01:34

ZENIT Staff

Pope received in audience at the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace Photo: Vatican Media

Local Church

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

Hanna Hanania, outgoing Mayor of Bethlehem, a small town in the Palestinian West Bank, said to EWTN agency in English that, “like any other Palestinian city, Bethlehem is in mourning and sad.” “We cannot celebrate while we’re in this situation,” referring to the Israel-Hamas war.

Dec 04, 2023 22:24

Rafael Llanes

Local Church

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

Monsignor Georg Bätzing expressed his reaction in a letter to Archbishop Gadecki The Bishop of Limburg, Germany, accuses his Polish counterpart of Poznan of “rather unbrotherly behaviour” and of “enormous overreach of his authority.” The Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita published Bishop Bätzing’s letter, dated November 21.

Dec 03, 2023 22:36

Rafael Llanes

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

Pope Leo XIV assumes his role as Bishop of Rome for the second time and will ordain new priests for his diocese

The authorization, granted on March 7, clears the way for the ordination of eight future priests and seven permanent deacons who have completed the required stages of formation and examination under the diocesan commissions responsible for evaluating candidates for sacred orders

Cardinal of Iran arrives at the Vatican and meets with Pope Leo XIV after the bombing of the country and days without news of him

The Vatican has also recalled the Holy See’s diplomatic representative in Iran, the Indian priest Sebastian Febin, who had been serving as chargé d’affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature in the absence of a nuncio

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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

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

Muslim leaders join Christians in denouncing extremism