The 2025 National Study of Catholic Priests Is Released, and These Are the Results on Well-being, Trust in Bishops, and Pastoral Priorities

Oct 15, 2025 12:01

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Although 61% of priests do not report symptoms of burnout, 39% experience at least one

Good News•Testimonies

16 Children, Sometimes Not Perfect, but United and Faithful: The Story of an Influencer Marriage

The Gallagher home is a small world where laughter, tears, sacrifices, and prayers intertwine. It is not a perfect home, but it is deeply alive. Every day brings new challenges, and each challenge is an opportunity to trust a little more.

Oct 13, 2025 11:18

Dante Alba, LC

Local Church•Young People

Northern Ireland’s Youth Spark Unexpected Religious Revival

The survey offers an optimistic counterpoint to the narrative of a faith in decline

Oct 13, 2025 11:15

Elizabeth Owens

Cardinals and Bishops•Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV: yes to synodality, but without undermining the authority of the bishop

The Pontiff highlighted that walking together, listening, and engaging all baptized members is essential to the Church’s mission. Yet, he stressed that this inclusive process must coexist with the authority conferred by Christ on the episcopal college

Oct 13, 2025 11:08

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

Bishops in Kenya launch brand of wine for Mass: the existing brand lost its sacred character

The directive, unveiled on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, marks the end of a troubling chapter in which the same wine consecrated at Mass was being casually poured in bars, hotels, and supermarkets across the country

Oct 13, 2025 11:06

Elizabeth Owens

Local Church•Religious Freedom

Washington government will no longer imprison priests who refuse to violate the seal of confession

The backlash was immediate and intense. Washington’s Catholic bishops, joined by Orthodox churches, launched parallel lawsuits in both of the state’s federal districts, arguing that the measure struck at the very heart of religious freedom

Oct 13, 2025 11:04

Tim Daniels

Pope Leo XIV to Equatorial Guinea: video captures the Holy Father’s travel coordinator visiting the country ahead of a papal trip

If Malabo’s walk-through on 9 February is any indication, the new pontificate intends to move early and visibly. For the Vatican, apostolic travel has never been mere movement; it is a pastoral act staged in public space

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

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The 2025 National Study of Catholic Priests Is Released, and These Are the Results on Well-being, Trust in Bishops, and Pastoral Priorities

5,000 antibiotics leave the Vatican for Gaza on the orders of Pope Leo XIV

Graffiti inside Canterbury Anglican Cathedral (with permission from the gay rector) divides public opinion

Vatican suspends training at major seminary in Congo amid growing division in local Church

These are the 10 bishops who are candidates to lead the Catholic Church in the United States for the next three years

Artistic and religious catastrophe: important Italian monastery (where Carlo Acutis made his first communion) catches fire

One in five Catholics worldwide is African, as is one in three seminarians: the impressive statistics of African Catholicism

16 Children, Sometimes Not Perfect, but United and Faithful: The Story of an Influencer Marriage

Northern Ireland’s Youth Spark Unexpected Religious Revival

Pope Leo XIV: yes to synodality, but without undermining the authority of the bishop

Bishops in Kenya launch brand of wine for Mass: the existing brand lost its sacred character

Washington government will no longer imprison priests who refuse to violate the seal of confession