Marian spirituality explained by Leo XIV in the light of authentic Christian spirituality

Oct 12, 2025 13:44

ZENIT Staff

some 50,000 people participated in the Eucharistic celebration. Photo: Vatican Media

Persecuted Christians

Ted Cruz Confronts Nigeria Over Christian Killings, Igniting Diplomatic Tensions

The U.S. State Department has also expressed concern over the Nigerian government’s response to such violence. Its 2024 human rights report noted that while Abuja occasionally investigates allegations of abuse, prosecutions and punishments “remain rare.”

Oct 10, 2025 13:11

Tim Daniels

Islam•Vatican City

A Prayer Room in the Pope’s Library: Vatican’s Gesture Toward Muslim Scholars Sparks Quiet Storm

For some, the move reflects an admirable spirit of dialogue and respect for those who come from afar to study ancient manuscripts. For others, it represents a troubling confusion of mission and identity

Oct 10, 2025 13:09

Valentina di Giorgio

Dicasteries•Homosexuality•Local Church

Vatican contradicts German bishops: text for blessing same-sex couples was not approved

Bishop Georg Bätzing, head of the DBK, has repeatedly defended the initiative. At the September assembly, he told journalists the document had been produced “in transparent consultation with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” (DDF), portraying it as a contextual application of the Vatican’s 2023 declaration Fiducia supplicans

Oct 10, 2025 13:05

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Good News•Local Church

80,000 People Attend Mass Every Sunday… in the Same Church. Of Which Country Are We Talking About?

Thirty Masses are celebrated on weekends in English, Arabic, French, Urdu, and Filipino.

Oct 09, 2025 17:25

Rafael Llanes

Holy Land•Religious Freedom

Netanyahu at the UN: Palestinian Christians Denounce a Lie

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian Authority of causing Christians to flee Palestine, Christians took up arms, convinced that the policies of successive Israeli Governments are driving Christians to emigrate from Palestine, and even from Israel, as the figures show.

Oct 09, 2025 13:01

ZENIT Staff

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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Marian spirituality explained by Leo XIV in the light of authentic Christian spirituality

Questions about liturgy: A Bishop’s Authority Over the Liturgy

The Pope’s poetic words at the Marian vigil of prayer in which the Church prayed for peace

Religious freedom explained by Leo XIV

Trump administration to impose even more radical ban on funding for programs that promote abortion

Abortion reaches the UN Security Council once again

The state of ecclesiastical marriage in a Catholic European country: Italy

Ted Cruz Confronts Nigeria Over Christian Killings, Igniting Diplomatic Tensions

A Prayer Room in the Pope’s Library: Vatican’s Gesture Toward Muslim Scholars Sparks Quiet Storm

Vatican contradicts German bishops: text for blessing same-sex couples was not approved

80,000 People Attend Mass Every Sunday… in the Same Church. Of Which Country Are We Talking About?

Netanyahu at the UN: Palestinian Christians Denounce a Lie