Freedom Before Christmas: Nigeria’s St. Mary’s Abductions End, but the Questions Remain

Dec 23, 2025 15:30

Elizabeth Owens

99 freed students are reunited with their parents, while 154 remain in captivity Photo: ACN International

Good News•Local Church

From 1991 to date, 70% of clinics that perform abortions in the US have closed, according to research

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, accounted for a striking 36 of the 54 closures. When factoring in an additional 28 referral centers that have shuttered, the organization experienced a record total of 64 closures in just one year

Dec 21, 2025 17:06

Tim Daniels

Good News•Local Church

Restoring the Chaplain’s Call: U.S. Military Moves to Reclaim Spiritual Leadership

Hegseth argued that in recent decades, chaplains have been increasingly cast not as spiritual leaders but as emotional support officers

Dec 21, 2025 17:02

Tim Daniels

Causes of Saints•Local Church

From Boardroom to Beatification: How an Argentine Businessman Is Redefining Holiness

The date and place of Shaw’s beatification are expected to be announced shortly. When that moment arrives, it will mark not just the recognition of a miracle, but the elevation of a vision

Dec 21, 2025 16:54

Enrique Villegas

Liturgy and Divine Worship

Questions about liturgy: Applause Within Mass

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

Dec 21, 2025 16:51

ZENIT Staff

Testimonies

Military Chaplain at 59: The Story of a Future Catholic (Married) Priest in Ukraine

His vocation wasn’t born in his youth, but in a moment of profound sorrow. In 2023, during the funeral of Dmytro Pashchuk — a young soldier and his daughter’s fiancé — Petro felt something he recognized as a true experience of the Resurrection. This shook him to his core: the pain of loss became a call to give meaning to death.

Dec 20, 2025 17:26

Dante Alba, LC

Health for all: a speech by Leo XIV on health and human life

Address of the Pope to participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life

Opus Dei before the Pope: what was said about the new statutes and some controversies in Argentina

In addition, they discussed the situation of vocations in the Church and, particularly, the contrast between the situation in Africa and in Europe.

Freedom Before Christmas: Nigeria’s St. Mary’s Abductions End, but the Questions Remain

Cardinal Damasceno confers ministries on 69 Heralds of the Gospel and hints at upcoming ordinations (end of Vatican intervention?)

Polonia: Sunday Mass Attendance Rises as Sacramental Life Continues to Thin

The current situation of the priesthood: this is what Leo XIV’s letter to priests says about identity, formation, loneliness, desertions, renewal, etc.

PHOTO GALLERY: Pope Leo XIV revives childhood tradition: mass blessing of “baby Jesus” figures at the Vatican

These are the three topics the Pope will address with cardinals in his first consistory

This is the new Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV for London: he is from Africa, enjoys horse riding, and was a soldier

From 1991 to date, 70% of clinics that perform abortions in the US have closed, according to research

Restoring the Chaplain’s Call: U.S. Military Moves to Reclaim Spiritual Leadership

From Boardroom to Beatification: How an Argentine Businessman Is Redefining Holiness

Questions about liturgy: Applause Within Mass

Military Chaplain at 59: The Story of a Future Catholic (Married) Priest in Ukraine