Explanatory Note Regarding the Faculties to Preach and Hear Confessions in the Territory of the Diocese of Rome During the Jubilee 2025

Feb 11, 2025 15:32

ZENIT Staff

www.flickr.com/photos/theologhia - Robert Cheaib

99% of the surveyed dioceses have multiple parishes offering Mass in Spanish.

Vatican City

Vatican: they get married in the Church and are fired. They are going to trial against the “Vatican bank”

Vatican Bank Faces Legal Battle Over Employee Marriage Policy. Former Employees Challenge Dismissal, Call for Justice and Compensation

Feb 04, 2025 18:11

Valentina di Giorgio

Pope Francis•Protection of vulnerable people•Vatican Diplomacy•Young People

Pope at summit on children’s rights: tough on abortion and child exploitation, announces exhortation on childhood

Pope’s words on the occasion of the World Meeting on the Rights of the Child entitled “Let us love and protect them”.

Feb 04, 2025 18:08

ZENIT Staff

Jubilee 2025•Rome

Confession in Rome During the Jubilee: Diocese of Rome Gives Norms to Priests

In regard to Confession, on December 12 the Diocese of Rome published explanatory norms for priests.

Feb 03, 2025 17:55

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Rome

Recovering A Tradition: Pope Francis Will Meet With Rome’s Clergy on March 6

The last meeting, with diocesan priests, men religious and permanent deacons in pastoral service in the Diocese of Rome, was held on January 13, 2024.

Feb 03, 2025 17:47

ZENIT Staff

Gender Ideology•Local Church•Protection of vulnerable people

Bishop Barron responds to Trump’s executive order on protecting children from genital mutilation in LGBT+ context

“Helping young people accept their bodies and their vocation as women and men is the true path of freedom and happiness,” says Bishop Barron

Feb 02, 2025 16:41

ZENIT Staff

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

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Explanatory Note Regarding the Faculties to Preach and Hear Confessions in the Territory of the Diocese of Rome During the Jubilee 2025

Pope Francis decrees that the liturgical feast of Mother Teresa of Calcutta be added to the Church’s universal calendar

1.3 million pilgrims have already passed through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s in the first weeks of the Jubilee

Vatican security concerns resurface: person desecrates altar in St. Peter’s Basilica

First Vatican Summit Is Announced on Longevity: Science, Ethics and Future of Longevity

Holy See approves statutes of the Regnum Christi Federation (of which the Legionaries of Christ are a part)

Vatican pronounces on the transfer of days of obligation for Mass in the liturgical calendar

Vatican: they get married in the Church and are fired. They are going to trial against the “Vatican bank”

Pope at summit on children’s rights: tough on abortion and child exploitation, announces exhortation on childhood

Confession in Rome During the Jubilee: Diocese of Rome Gives Norms to Priests

Recovering A Tradition: Pope Francis Will Meet With Rome’s Clergy on March 6

Bishop Barron responds to Trump’s executive order on protecting children from genital mutilation in LGBT+ context