How Is the Jubilee Going and What Impressions Do Those Who Organized It Have? ZENIT’s Interview with Monsignor Rino Fisichella

Jul 09, 2025 22:44

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, Italian Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for the New Evangelization and organizer of the 2025 Jubilee.

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians

Taybeh, the last fully Christian city in the West Bank, is facing increasing pressure from encroaching Jewish settlers

In a cover story titled “The Making of the Pope”, Time Magazine’s Belinda Luscombe paints a portrait of a man formed less by Vatican intrigue than by pastoral grit, theological patience, and the steady pressure of humility

Jul 09, 2025 22:15

Tim Daniels

Religious Freedom

Apple TV Series Airs Scene Mocking the Eucharist: These Are the Reactions

Catholicvote denounces the scene as «deliberate blasphemy» and comments: «Is it compatible with the ‘culture of dignity, respect, and opportunity for all’ to promote content that ridicules and degrades the Catholic faith? Would you allow an equivalent mockery of the Islamic or Jewish faith?» Josh Mercer asks in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Jul 09, 2025 22:00

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Local Church

Opus Dei Denies Accusation of «Trafficking» and Considers It Necessary to Grant the Accused Individuals the Right to Give Their Version of the Facts

«We reiterate that we categorically deny the accusation of human trafficking and labour exploitation made by her against Prelature,» states the press release from Opus Dei in Argentina.

Jul 07, 2025 13:35

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Vocations

The Seminary with the Most Seminarians in the World (700) Dedicated to a French Laywoman

No fewer than 63 Bishops and four Cardinals have passed through its Chapel and classrooms.

Jul 07, 2025 13:32

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Rome

Vatican to Release Marian Document Clarifying Supernatural Phenomena Guidelines

Speaking to journalists in Rome on July 3, Cardinal Fernández revealed that the document is nearing completion and will offer theological reflections and pastoral criteria regarding Marian devotion, particularly as it relates to alleged apparitions and private revelations

Jul 07, 2025 13:26

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How Is the Jubilee Going and What Impressions Do Those Who Organized It Have? ZENIT’s Interview with Monsignor Rino Fisichella

First Woman with Dwarfism on the Path to Canonization Thanks to Leo XIV

Vatican gives new nihil obstat to Marian apparitions in Litmanová, Slovakia

Pope Leo XIV receives Zelensky: open doors to Russia and Ukraine for negotiations and invitation to visit Ukraine

Who Is Afraid of Catholic Saints? A Strange Campaign Against Carlo Acutis

Pope Leo XIV avoids schism, ends mission of bishop in liturgical dispute in India

Ordinations Across a Shifting Continent: A Fragmented Yet Revealing Portrait of Catholic Priesthood in Europe, 2025

Taybeh, the last fully Christian city in the West Bank, is facing increasing pressure from encroaching Jewish settlers

Apple TV Series Airs Scene Mocking the Eucharist: These Are the Reactions

Opus Dei Denies Accusation of «Trafficking» and Considers It Necessary to Grant the Accused Individuals the Right to Give Their Version of the Facts

The Seminary with the Most Seminarians in the World (700) Dedicated to a French Laywoman

Vatican to Release Marian Document Clarifying Supernatural Phenomena Guidelines