Between Kyiv and Jerusalem: Vatican Diplomacy in Full Swing During Holy Week. Pope Leo XIV Speaks with the Ukrainian and Israeli Presidents

Apr 04, 2026 20:20

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV received Ukrainian President Zelensky in a private audience Photo: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV•Vatican Diplomacy

For the first time, a pope (Leo XIV) will receive the U.S. Medal of Freedom: here’s what you need to know

Organizers have been explicit about this broader interpretation. For them, honoring the pope is not only about recognizing an individual, but about narrating a longer story—one that includes multiple faith traditions and acknowledges the complex path through which religious liberty became a foundational principle in the United States

Mar 17, 2026 17:34

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Pope Leo XIV•Vatican Diplomacy

A Phone Call in Times of War: Pope Leo XIV Answers a Call from the President of Palestine

According to the Holy See Press Office, the exchange was explicitly diplomatic. The Pope reiterated the Holy See’s long-standing position: peace must be pursued through political negotiation and diplomacy, anchored in full respect for international law

Mar 17, 2026 17:28

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace•Vatican Diplomacy

Results of Vatican diplomacy: Amid conflict with the U.S., Cuba will release prisoners

The decision underscores the continued relevance of Vatican diplomacy in Cuba. By combining moral appeals with patient negotiation, the Holy See has repeatedly succeeded in encouraging humanitarian gestures that might otherwise have remained politically impossibl

Mar 13, 2026 13:41

Enrique Villegas

Cardinals and Bishops•Pope Leo XIV•Vatican Diplomacy

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

Mar 12, 2026 20:14

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Vatican Diplomacy

Vatican Diplomacy Recognized: EU Honors Cardinal Pietro Parolin with the First European Order of Merit

The recipients were selected by a committee composed of Metsola, European Parliament vice-presidents Sophie Wilmès and Ewa Kopacz, along with several former senior European leaders, including Michel Barnier, José Manuel Barroso, Josep Borrell and Enrico Letta

Mar 12, 2026 20:02

Joachin Meisner Hertz

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Holiness, beautifully explained by Leo XIV on the Solemnity of All Saints

Address on the Occasion of the Angelus Prayer on Sunday, November 1, 2026

Leo XIV Appoints New Leadership to Guide the Synodal Process into Its Next Phase

Announced on October 30, the appointments fill the positions previously held by Bishop Luis Marín and Sister Nathalie Becquart. Marín has moved to the leadership of the Apostolic Almoner’s Office and the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, while Becquart, appointed in February 2021, concludes a period in which she became one of the most recognizable figures of the synodal process

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Between Kyiv and Jerusalem: Vatican Diplomacy in Full Swing During Holy Week. Pope Leo XIV Speaks with the Ukrainian and Israeli Presidents

French President Emmanuel Macron to Be Received in Audience by Leo XIV

Prague Blocks Vatican Pact: Confession Secrecy and Church Archives at the Heart of Constitutional Clash

Pope Leo XIV Speaks Again About Trump and the War (and It Is Announced That the Pope Will Carry the Cross Throughout the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday)

Holy Land: Cardinal Pizzaballa Says Palm Sunday Mass Ban in Jerusalem Was a Misunderstanding

Trump responds to Pope Leo XIV: I don’t want a ceasefire

A Church Against the Logic of War: Vatican Voices, Middle East Realities, and the Risk of a Vanishing Christianity

For the first time, a pope (Leo XIV) will receive the U.S. Medal of Freedom: here’s what you need to know

A Phone Call in Times of War: Pope Leo XIV Answers a Call from the President of Palestine

Results of Vatican diplomacy: Amid conflict with the U.S., Cuba will release prisoners

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

Vatican Diplomacy Recognized: EU Honors Cardinal Pietro Parolin with the First European Order of Merit