Putin bombs Ukraine on Christmas Day and Pope Leo XIV responds with humanitarian aid: photos of what he sent

Dec 29, 2025 15:57

Three lorries loaded with food supplies have reached some of the Ukrainian areas most affected by the fighting Photo: Limosnería Apostólica

Pope Leo XIV•Vocations

The current situation of the priesthood: this is what Leo XIV’s letter to priests says about identity, formation, loneliness, desertions, renewal, etc.

Leo XIV Recasts the Meaning of Priesthood for a Wounded Church

Dec 22, 2025 15:27

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis•Pope Leo XIV•Young People

PHOTO GALLERY: Pope Leo XIV revives childhood tradition: mass blessing of “baby Jesus” figures at the Vatican

The initiative, organized by the Centro Oratori Romani and dating back to 1969 under Paul VI, has long been a fixture of Advent in Rome

Dec 22, 2025 15:20

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Pope Leo XIV

These are the three topics the Pope will address with cardinals in his first consistory

The announcement, confirmed on 20 December by the Holy See Press Office, puts an end to weeks of speculation in Vatican circles

Dec 22, 2025 15:15

Elizabeth Owens

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Pope Leo XIV

This is the new Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV for London: he is from Africa, enjoys horse riding, and was a soldier

Born in 1958 in Chingola, in what was then Northern Rhodesia and is now Zambia, Richard Moth grew up in Kent after his family returned to England. His vocation emerged early, influenced by parish life and a priest whose personal holiness left a lasting impression

Dec 22, 2025 15:12

Elizabeth Owens

Angelus•Pope Leo XIV

To enter into Christmas: Pope Leo XIV’s beautiful, short, timely, and appropriate meditation on Saint Joseph

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, December 21, 2025

Dec 21, 2025 17:54

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV Meets with Victims of Abuse in Spain

During the conversation, which lasted almost an hour, each of those present, drawing on their own painful personal experiences, offered the Pope proposals for a more effective Church response to these tragic cases.

The Pope’s powerful homily on the Feast of Corpus Christi: may religiosity not be a museum of the past, but a school of faith from which we can draw inspiration even today

Homily by the Holy Father on the occasion of Corpus Christi in Madrid

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Putin bombs Ukraine on Christmas Day and Pope Leo XIV responds with humanitarian aid: photos of what he sent

Leo XIV, Putin’s rejection of the Christmas truce, and disappointment with the Democratic governor of Illinois

Germans trust Leo XIV more than Islam: new survey results released

To find the Savior, one must not gaze upward, but look below: the Pope’s homily at Christmas Eve Mass

A simple, concrete, and timely meditation on work based on the nativity scene created by Leo XIV

2 two fundamental aspects of the life of the Church: mission and communion explained by Leo XIV to the curia in a great speech

A new “labor law” for the Vatican: this is what Pope Leo XIV approved

The current situation of the priesthood: this is what Leo XIV’s letter to priests says about identity, formation, loneliness, desertions, renewal, etc.

PHOTO GALLERY: Pope Leo XIV revives childhood tradition: mass blessing of “baby Jesus” figures at the Vatican

These are the three topics the Pope will address with cardinals in his first consistory

This is the new Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV for London: he is from Africa, enjoys horse riding, and was a soldier

To enter into Christmas: Pope Leo XIV’s beautiful, short, timely, and appropriate meditation on Saint Joseph