How can we love unlimitedly as Jesus teaches us?

Sep 16, 2023 20:41

ZENIT Staff

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Local Church•Rome

Syro-Malankara Orthodox celebrate Mass in one of Rome’s four main basilicas

A day later, the Syro-Malankar Orthodox leader was received in audience by the Pope at the Vatican. Mutual speeches were followed by a common prayer in Pope Francis’s private chapel.

Sep 12, 2023 23:02

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Nicaragua: Ortega’s dictatorship kidnaps Catholic priest

Lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, a researcher on the persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, comments that the priest’s kidnapping is possibly a reprisal for his recent celebrations in which he prayed for the freedom of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, the bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí.

Sep 12, 2023 21:45

ZENIT Staff

Church and World

For The First Time in Francis’ Pontificate, a Cardinal Officially Visits China

The last Cardinals to visit officially or semi-officially China were Roger Etchegaray and Theodore McCarrick (now without a Cardinal’s hat and reduced to the lay state).

Sep 12, 2023 18:06

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Testimonies

Historic: entire family beatified including newborn baby born during martyrdom

In the witness and martyrdom of the Ulma’s and their children we discover anew the greatness of the family, a place of life, love and fruitfulness – said Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, in his homily at the Mass for the rite of beatification of the Ulma Family, which took place on September 10, 2023 in Markowa, in the Podkarpacie region.

Sep 11, 2023 00:34

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Testimonies

Successor of St. José María Escrivá on the verge of beatification after miracle in Mexico

The possible miracle consists in the speed and integrity of the recovery, without rehabilitation, of Juan Carlos Bisogno, who suffered a severe cranioencephalic traumatism, fracture with temporal collapse, pneumoencephalon and fracture of the middle floor, with the total absence of neurological and psychological sequelae.

Sep 11, 2023 00:08

ZENIT Staff

Trump responds to Pope Leo XIV: I don’t want a ceasefire

Donald Trump has publicly dismissed the very idea of a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict involving Iran. Questioned about the Pope’s earlier call—issued on 15 March—for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a reopening of dialogue, the U.S. president was blunt: “We can talk, but I don’t want a ceasefire.”

The account of the resurrection of Lazarus and the symptom of a longing for the infinite, as reflected upon by Leo XIV

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, March 22, 2026

How can we love unlimitedly as Jesus teaches us?

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This is the prayer of intercession for the synod that the Vatican is asking to be prayed all over the world

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China officially receives Pope’s envoy, Cardinal Zuppi

Prelate of Opus Dei reports on the work of adapting its Statutes

A «Personal Prelature» for «Filipino emigrants» under study

Syro-Malankara Orthodox celebrate Mass in one of Rome’s four main basilicas

Nicaragua: Ortega’s dictatorship kidnaps Catholic priest

For The First Time in Francis’ Pontificate, a Cardinal Officially Visits China

Historic: entire family beatified including newborn baby born during martyrdom

Successor of St. José María Escrivá on the verge of beatification after miracle in Mexico