Asteroid Dedicated to Catholic Priest: Who He Is and Why?

Jul 10, 2025 06:50

Luca Peyron is a cheerful Italian priest, writer, and founder of the Digital Apostolic Service of the Archdiocese of Turin. Photo: Avvenire

Analysis Opinion•Causes of Saints

Who Is Afraid of Catholic Saints? A Strange Campaign Against Carlo Acutis

The Italian teenager is set to be canonized in September. Progressive Catholics and secular journalists are opposing the canonization. Why?

Jul 09, 2025 22:28

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV avoids schism, ends mission of bishop in liturgical dispute in India

For Pope Leo XIV, this resolution is not merely a success—it is an expression of a deeper vision for the Catholic Church in the 21st century: a Church that honors tradition without weaponizing it, and that fosters unity without flattening diversity.

Jul 09, 2025 22:24

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Vocations

Ordinations Across a Shifting Continent: A Fragmented Yet Revealing Portrait of Catholic Priesthood in Europe, 2025

According to the Vatican’s own «Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae», the number of priests in Europe declined by 1.6% in 2023 alone. That same year, Europe still held 38.1% of the world’s priests—but that share is steadily shrinking.

Jul 09, 2025 22:20

Covadonga Asturias

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians

Taybeh, the last fully Christian city in the West Bank, is facing increasing pressure from encroaching Jewish settlers

In a cover story titled “The Making of the Pope”, Time Magazine’s Belinda Luscombe paints a portrait of a man formed less by Vatican intrigue than by pastoral grit, theological patience, and the steady pressure of humility

Jul 09, 2025 22:15

Tim Daniels

Religious Freedom

Apple TV Series Airs Scene Mocking the Eucharist: These Are the Reactions

Catholicvote denounces the scene as «deliberate blasphemy» and comments: «Is it compatible with the ‘culture of dignity, respect, and opportunity for all’ to promote content that ridicules and degrades the Catholic faith? Would you allow an equivalent mockery of the Islamic or Jewish faith?» Josh Mercer asks in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Jul 09, 2025 22:00

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Pope Leo XIV assumes his role as Bishop of Rome for the second time and will ordain new priests for his diocese

The authorization, granted on March 7, clears the way for the ordination of eight future priests and seven permanent deacons who have completed the required stages of formation and examination under the diocesan commissions responsible for evaluating candidates for sacred orders

Cardinal of Iran arrives at the Vatican and meets with Pope Leo XIV after the bombing of the country and days without news of him

The Vatican has also recalled the Holy See’s diplomatic representative in Iran, the Indian priest Sebastian Febin, who had been serving as chargé d’affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature in the absence of a nuncio

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