Restoration of Bethlehem Basilica announced: the birthplace of Christ

Jan 24, 2026 11:09

Grotto of the Nativity, the hallowed site revered across Christendom as the birthplace of Christ Photo: Custody of the Holy Land

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Nearly a Billion Listens Later, a Priest, a Microphone, and a Bible That Keeps Speaking

Bible in a Year remains available across all major podcast platforms, maintaining the accessibility that helped drive its early growth

Jan 08, 2026 19:28

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Puerto Rico Redraws the Legal Map of Prenatal Life: every human being is considered a natural person

At the center of the legislative shift is Senate Bill 504, introduced by Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz. The measure revises key provisions of the Civil Code to state explicitly that every human being is considered a natural person, a definition that now includes the human being conceived in the mother’s womb at any stage of pregnancy

Dec 30, 2025 17:21

Enrique Villegas

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How do music and sound generate experiences of wonder? Stanford researchers launch investigation into sound and transcendence

At the heart of the project lies a provocative hypothesis. Many sacred sites, the researchers argue, produce acoustic effects that disrupt ordinary sensory expectations. Echoes blur spatial boundaries, sound sources become difficult to locate, distances seem to stretch or collapse. What the eyes perceive as finite and material, the ears experience as expansive and elusive

Dec 23, 2025 15:34

Jorge Enrique Mújica

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The world’s oldest church has been found: where is it, what is it like, and how can you visit it?

Discovered in 1998 by a team led by American archaeologist Thomas Parker, the church was constructed between approximately 293 and 303, during the reign of Emperor Diocletian. Unlike earlier Christian meeting places—often adapted private homes known as domus ecclesiae—the Aqaba structure was built from the ground up as a church

Dec 23, 2025 15:32

ZENIT Staff

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From 1991 to date, 70% of clinics that perform abortions in the US have closed, according to research

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, accounted for a striking 36 of the 54 closures. When factoring in an additional 28 referral centers that have shuttered, the organization experienced a record total of 64 closures in just one year

Dec 21, 2025 17:06

Tim Daniels

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

Restoration of Bethlehem Basilica announced: the birthplace of Christ

Brazil: Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro sees increase in number of sacraments celebrated

The Better Part: The First Intellectual Jounal Written by Catholic Women

Carmelite friar who prays the Rosary online at 4 a.m. becomes Brazil’s most-watched streamer in 2025

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The Shroud of Turin goes digital: Turin officially opens an ancient relic to the world in the AI era

Nearly a Billion Listens Later, a Priest, a Microphone, and a Bible That Keeps Speaking

Puerto Rico Redraws the Legal Map of Prenatal Life: every human being is considered a natural person

How do music and sound generate experiences of wonder? Stanford researchers launch investigation into sound and transcendence

The world’s oldest church has been found: where is it, what is it like, and how can you visit it?

From 1991 to date, 70% of clinics that perform abortions in the US have closed, according to research