Vatican telescope searches for new worlds: here’s what it has found

Mar 21, 2023 10:08

ZENIT Staff

Vatican Telescope

Protection of vulnerable people

Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Will Receive Victims of Abuses on International Women’s Day

Pope Francis will greet María Joseph and Janada Marcus at the end of the General Audience on March 8. The two women will also be received by the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani.

Feb 28, 2023 15:56

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Protection of vulnerable people

France: Civil Justice Files Investigation against Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard Due to Expiration

Civil justice stated, through French Attorney Dominique Laurens, that the procedure was filed due to expiration; the ecclesiastical process, however, continues.

Feb 27, 2023 02:57

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Dicasteries•Rome

The Current State of Ecclesiastical Universities in Rome: Numbers, History and Formative Offer

Almost 16,000 students, the majority of them men religious, nuns, seminarians and priests, study in one of the 22 Pontifical Institutions that are in the City of Rome and depend on the Vatican.

Feb 26, 2023 18:45

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis•Vatican City

The Intelligence of the Hands: Pope’s Reflection to Students and Professors of the Roman Pontifical Universities

Among the three intelligences that stir the human soul, the Holy Father spoke of that of the mind, of the heart and of the hands, each one with its own timbre and character, and all necessary.

Feb 26, 2023 18:39

ZENIT Staff

Church and World•Vatican City

Oman: New Country with Which the Vatican Establishes Diplomatic Relations

With this new diplomatic agreement, the Holy See now has bilateral relations with 184 countries (with 182 if Palestine and the Order of Malta are left out, as they have special relations). Oman was one of the Muslim countries with which the Holy See did not have diplomatic relations.

Feb 23, 2023 22:39

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis Highlights Europe’s Challenge: Unity in Diversity

Address to the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Commission of the Bishops of the European Union (COMECE).

Pope Addresses Confessors and Future Confessors: Never Be a Psychiatrist or Psychoanalyst in the Confessional

Address to the participants in the Course on the Internal Forum organized by the Apostolic Penitentiary.

Vatican telescope searches for new worlds: here’s what it has found

Benedict XVI Exonerated from Trial in Germany for Lack of Proof of Covering Up Abuses

Five People Can Inherit From Benedict XVI

The John Paul II Case: This Is the Message that the Polish Bishops Asked to Be Read in All Parishes

Canada: Jesuits publish names of members credibly accused of child sex abuse

In Ten Years of Pope Francis’ Pontificate, the Number of Women Working in the Vatican Has Increased from 846 to 1,165

By Order of the Pope, Will Cardinals and Bishops Pay for the Apartments Where They Live in the Vatican?

Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Will Receive Victims of Abuses on International Women’s Day

France: Civil Justice Files Investigation against Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard Due to Expiration

The Current State of Ecclesiastical Universities in Rome: Numbers, History and Formative Offer

The Intelligence of the Hands: Pope’s Reflection to Students and Professors of the Roman Pontifical Universities

Oman: New Country with Which the Vatican Establishes Diplomatic Relations