Nicaraguan dictatorship bans Bibles from entering the country

Dec 17, 2025 11:19

Enrique Villegas

It is not only weapons, drones, or sensitive equipment that now risk confiscation

Local Church•Young People

The 25-35 Generation Demands Pastoral Care That Listens, Welcomes, and Accompanies

The study reveals a happy, engaged, and relational generation that deeply values community and interpersonal relationships — family, friendship, and faith — but feels a lack of spaces of belonging appropriate to their stage of life.

Dec 13, 2025 09:59

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

The return of confession: a sacrament regaining its place. What a French study says

The confessional, long considered a casualty of modernity, may thus be reemerging as a defining space for a Church that has learned to live as a minority—smaller, more urban, and more intentional than before

Dec 12, 2025 19:33

Covadonga Asturias

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

American Catholics are in favor of the death penalty. This is according to a recently published survey

A recent nationwide survey conducted by EWTN News in partnership with RealClear Opinion Research illustrates this tension with unusual clarity

Dec 12, 2025 19:29

Tim Daniels

Islam

What about feminism? Mexico declares the use of Islamic veils in official document photos legal

The ruling emerged from a case that began not in the nation’s highest tribunal, but at a routine government office in the northern city of Chihuahua

Dec 12, 2025 19:26

Enrique Villegas

Good News•Local Church•Virgin Mary

Attendance record broken at Basilica of Guadalupe on December 12, 2025. President of Mexico speaks with the Pope

Beyond the numbers, church leaders have paid close attention to what pilgrims bring with them interiorly. Mexico’s bishops have noted that petitions to the Virgin increasingly reflect anxieties about violence and insecurity, a concern that cuts across regions and social classes

Dec 12, 2025 19:20

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Under the agreement with China, Leo XIV appoints a new bishop

Chang Yanfeng, 42, was ordained bishop today under the Sino-Holy See agreement to a diocese that has been without its own pastor for 20 years. Just three weeks ago, the new prelate had to publicly commit the local Church to a controversial law designed to eliminate minorities.

Leo XIV encourages religious to view community life as a source of inspiration and sanctification

Message from Leo XIV to the Conference of Major Superiors of Men’s Religious Orders in the United States

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Nicaraguan dictatorship bans Bibles from entering the country

Faith at 35,000 Feet: United Airlines, Catholic Doctrine, and the Limits of Corporate Tolerance

Trump Administration’s Anti-Immigration Czar, a Catholic, Speaks Out Against US Church’s Message

Following ADF lawsuit, Houston school district respects parents’ wishes concerning daughter

NC high school student sues school district for censoring her Charlie Kirk tribute

The virtue of hope and diplomatic action, according to Pope Leo XIV

Syria: in 14 years, the Christian presence has fallen by 84%: these are the numbers

The 25-35 Generation Demands Pastoral Care That Listens, Welcomes, and Accompanies

The return of confession: a sacrament regaining its place. What a French study says

American Catholics are in favor of the death penalty. This is according to a recently published survey

What about feminism? Mexico declares the use of Islamic veils in official document photos legal

Attendance record broken at Basilica of Guadalupe on December 12, 2025. President of Mexico speaks with the Pope