Mary Co-redemptrix? This is what the most comprehensive Vatican reflection on Marian terminology since the Second Vatican Council says

Nov 04, 2025 17:43

which seeks to clarify the proper theological understanding of certain titles traditionally attributed to the Virgin Mary Photo: Pexels

Causes of Saints•Testimonies

Eleven Priests Martyred by Communism and Nazism To Be Beatified Following Authorization by Pope Leo XIV

In an audience granted by Pope Leo XIV on October 24, to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the promulgation was authorized of the decrees on the martyrdom of Polish priests between 1941 and 1942 «out of hatred for the faith,» in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps, and of Czech diocesan priests murdered between 1951 and 1952.

Nov 01, 2025 12:03

Rafael Llanes

Religious Freedom

India’s Supreme Court Questions Anti-Conversion Law, Reasserting the Nation’s Secular Soul

At issue is the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, introduced by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu nationalist government

Nov 01, 2025 12:01

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Young People

Report shows that young Americans attend religious services more than their parents

The numbers may be modest, but the implications are far-reaching. For years, sociologists and church leaders alike have worried that Christianity in America was entering a phase of irreversible decline

Oct 31, 2025 18:05

Tim Daniels

Good News•Local Church

The world’s largest Orthodox cathedral is inaugurated: one of its most important benefactors was Saint John Paul II

When Pope John Paul II visited Romania in 1999 — the first papal visit to an Orthodox-majority country since the Great Schism — he donated $200,000 to support the construction of the future national cathedral. The funds were later used to help purchase the cathedral’s bells, manufactured in Austria and blessed in 2018

Oct 31, 2025 18:02

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Local Church

Basilica of the Holy Family Becomes the Tallest Church in Europe

With the placement of the lower arm, the tower of Jesus of the Holy Family church reaches a height of 162.91 meters

Oct 31, 2025 12:06

ZENIT Staff

The gunman who attempted to assassinate John Paul II tried to meet with Leo XIV in Turquí: what happened?

Agca arrived with the unmistakable intention of inserting himself into the story. Speaking to Turkish media, he expressed hope for a brief conversation with the pontiff—a few minutes, nothing more—while insisting that the papal presence in Iznik was “extraordinary.”

The homily with which Pope Leo XIV instilled hope in the Lebanese people

Homily of Pope Leo XIV at the concluding Mass of his pastoral visit to Lebanon

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Mary Co-redemptrix? This is what the most comprehensive Vatican reflection on Marian terminology since the Second Vatican Council says

California’s Democratic government removes statue of Saint Junípero Sierra after lying about consulting the Archbishop of San Francisco

Nine diocesan priests begin novitiate in the Priestly Fraternities of St. Dominic

Trump threatens military intervention in Nigeria over the serious killing of Christians in the country

JD Vance (Catholic vice president of the USA) and his desire for his wife to convert to Catholicism

Cuba: Hurricane destroys the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre

Pope Leo XIV Grants Plenary Indulgence for Schoenstatt Centennial Pilgrims

Eleven Priests Martyred by Communism and Nazism To Be Beatified Following Authorization by Pope Leo XIV

India’s Supreme Court Questions Anti-Conversion Law, Reasserting the Nation’s Secular Soul

Report shows that young Americans attend religious services more than their parents

The world’s largest Orthodox cathedral is inaugurated: one of its most important benefactors was Saint John Paul II

Basilica of the Holy Family Becomes the Tallest Church in Europe