The Catholic Cemetery in Peru’s Capital Where Aborted Babies Found a Dignified Rest

Mar 25, 2026 17:35

ZENIT Staff

Parque del Recuerdo cemetery in Lurín Photo: Parque del Recuerdo

Dicasteries•Pope Leo XIV•Pro Life

Leo XIV perfects the mission of the Pontifical Academy for Life

The 2026 update is narrower in scope. Its most visible innovation is the formal introduction of “collaborators” — a new category distinct from the academy’s academic members.

Mar 03, 2026 08:51

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Pro Life

Notre Dame University Backs Away from a Contested Appointment

On February 26, the administration of University of Notre Dame confirmed that Professor Susan Ostermann will not assume the directorship of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, a post she had been scheduled to take up in July 2026

Feb 27, 2026 12:34

Tim Daniels

Pro Life

America’s Quiet Demographic Turn: Birth Rates Dip Again

For decades, demographic decline was framed in American discourse as someone else’s problem—Japan’s, Italy’s, South Korea’s. The latest U.S. figures suggest that the same structural challenges are now firmly at home.

Feb 24, 2026 23:30

Tim Daniels

Pro Life

Report shows that 2 out of 3 babies killed by abortion in the US owe their deaths to the abortion pill

If the data cited in the February 2026 report hold, the epicenter of the abortion debate has shifted decisively from operating rooms to online portals — and the next chapter will likely be written in statutes governing liability, medical standards, and the limits of remote medicine

Feb 20, 2026 11:58

ZENIT Staff

Pro Life•Testimonies

Puerto Rico’s pro-life governor redefines the concept of “human being” in criminal law, opening a new phase in the abortion debate

Puerto Rico has inserted the question of unborn personhood more deeply into its legal code. In doing so, it has not only amended a statute but intensified a debate that extends well beyond the island’s shores

Feb 17, 2026 18:10

ZENIT Staff

Another Change of Direction: Leo XIV Reforms the Diocese of Rome and Replaces All of Pope Francis’s Provisions

In terms of ecclesial governance, the reform scales back the more collegial and synodal character introduced by Pope Francis and restores a central role to the authority of the Cardinal Vicar.

Leo XIV intervenes of the Order of Malta through new legislative measures that amend or clarify provisions established by Pope Francis

The Rescriptum ex Audientia Sanctissimi, approved by the Pope on April 10 and signed by Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda, revises fourteen provisions—five articles of the Constitutional Charter and nine articles of the Melitense Code

The Catholic Cemetery in Peru’s Capital Where Aborted Babies Found a Dignified Rest

Late-night vote in the British Parliament gives the green light to abortion even at 9 months

Canada Nears 100,000 «Assisted Deaths». Euthanasia Debate Enters a New Phase

One in four Americans supports abortion in all circumstances: data reveals a nation still searching for consensus

Pro-life and anti-LGBT+: this is Trump’s new secretary of homeland security

Luxembourg approves the killing of babies in the womb as a constitutional right

Surprising study shows birth projections for 2026: only 8 out of every 100 babies will be born on three continents combined

Leo XIV perfects the mission of the Pontifical Academy for Life

Notre Dame University Backs Away from a Contested Appointment

America’s Quiet Demographic Turn: Birth Rates Dip Again

Report shows that 2 out of 3 babies killed by abortion in the US owe their deaths to the abortion pill

Puerto Rico’s pro-life governor redefines the concept of “human being” in criminal law, opening a new phase in the abortion debate