World’s Largest Statue Dedicated to the Virgin Mary Is Inaugurated in Brazil

Sep 29, 2025 06:36

Rafael Manuel Tovar

The assembly phase will be completed in November.

Cardinals and Bishops•Dicasteries•Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo entrusts the important Dicastery that elects bishops to a Carmelite and canonist

The appointment ends months of speculation that Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the prominent Filipino prelate serving at the Dicastery for Evangelization, might be chosen for the post

Sep 26, 2025 19:32

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Gender Ideology

Catholics and gender ideology

The Body Reveals the Person: A Catholic Response to the Challenges of Gender Ideology, by Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, is a thoughtful, beautifully illustrated, and thoroughly documented text that should be read in full.

Sep 26, 2025 19:23

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Pro Life•Vatican Diplomacy

Andorra will approve abortion despite the fact that its head of state is a Catholic bishop

Josep-Lluis Serrano Pentinat, the recently installed bishop of Urgell and, by virtue of that role, co-prince of Andorra, now finds himself at the center of an unfolding political and moral drama

Sep 26, 2025 19:13

Covadonga Asturias

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Image of Christ scourged, destroyed by Jewish extremist, reinstalled in Jerusalem

The restoration, entrusted to the Spanish restorer Pedro Escudero, was a work of patience and skill. For two months, day after day, Escudero rebuilt the missing parts, strengthened the broken legs and brought back the brightness of the original colors, up to the final varnishing

Sep 26, 2025 19:01

ZENIT Staff

Gender Ideology•Local Church

U.S. Bishops Enter Supreme Court Clash Over Transgender Athletes and Women’s Sports

The bishops argue that existing state laws protecting female-only teams are constitutionally sound, and that undoing them would cause “disastrous practical consequences” for Catholic schools and institutions

Sep 25, 2025 17:42

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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World’s Largest Statue Dedicated to the Virgin Mary Is Inaugurated in Brazil

Assisi: Meloni to attend St. Francis’ Day celebrations after it is approved as a national holiday

Poland 2025: European leader in number of vocations

Official: British monarchs announce state visit to Pope Leo XIV

Measuring the Call: New Study Exposes Strengths and Gaps in U.S. Seminary Assessments

Questions about liturgy: ¿Bows Toward Priests?

On the controversy in the German episcopate regarding Leo XIV’s clear “no” to liturgical blessings for gay couples

Pope Leo entrusts the important Dicastery that elects bishops to a Carmelite and canonist

Catholics and gender ideology

Andorra will approve abortion despite the fact that its head of state is a Catholic bishop

Image of Christ scourged, destroyed by Jewish extremist, reinstalled in Jerusalem

U.S. Bishops Enter Supreme Court Clash Over Transgender Athletes and Women’s Sports