Vatican Unveils Bold Climate Plan to Become the World’s First Carbon-Neutral State

Oct 21, 2025 12:22

If the Vatican succeeds in achieving carbon neutrality, it will do more than power its lights with the sun. Photo: Vatican Media

Dicasteries•Homosexuality•Local Church

Vatican contradicts German bishops: text for blessing same-sex couples was not approved

Bishop Georg Bätzing, head of the DBK, has repeatedly defended the initiative. At the September assembly, he told journalists the document had been produced “in transparent consultation with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” (DDF), portraying it as a contextual application of the Vatican’s 2023 declaration Fiducia supplicans

Oct 10, 2025 13:05

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Persecuted Christians•Rome

Rome to host official launch of Religious Freedom Report 2025

The programme will include the participation of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, who will deliver the inaugural address. Victims of religious persecution will also give first-hand testimonies, including two women who spent years on death row for their faith.

Oct 08, 2025 11:11

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Protection of vulnerable people

Vatican announces date of its second report on protection against abuse

In Krakow, the Vatican’s Child Protection Body Seeks a Global Culture of Accountability

Oct 07, 2025 10:18

Valentina di Giorgio

Vatican City

Leo XIV overturns Pope Francis’ decision and restructures Vatican finances under one principle: shared responsibility

This is Pope Leo XIV’s first Motu proprio: “Coniuncta cura”

Oct 06, 2025 11:11

Valentina di Giorgio

Homosexuality•Protection of vulnerable people

Canada: First Adoption of a Girl by Three Men in a «Polyamorous» Relationship

One of the three gay men, LeBlanc, told CTV that they fostered the girl for two years before obtaining approval for the adoption. «Through that process, they learned that we’re a little different because there are three of us, but we’re no different from any other family.»

Oct 05, 2025 23:29

Rafael Manuel Tovar

The gunman who attempted to assassinate John Paul II tried to meet with Leo XIV in Turquí: what happened?

Agca arrived with the unmistakable intention of inserting himself into the story. Speaking to Turkish media, he expressed hope for a brief conversation with the pontiff—a few minutes, nothing more—while insisting that the papal presence in Iznik was “extraordinary.”

The homily with which Pope Leo XIV instilled hope in the Lebanese people

Homily of Pope Leo XIV at the concluding Mass of his pastoral visit to Lebanon

Vatican Unveils Bold Climate Plan to Become the World’s First Carbon-Neutral State

Jim Caviezel is out of the sequel to The Passion of the Christ: this is the new cast that has already started filming in Rome

The Vatican will host the Fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements: we explain what it is all about

The Vatican presents its second report on combating abuse, and this is what it says

Rupnik case: proceedings move forward with the Vatican appointing five judges

After second sacrilegious desecration of Vatican basilica altar, cardinal performs ritual to ask God for forgiveness

A Prayer Room in the Pope’s Library: Vatican’s Gesture Toward Muslim Scholars Sparks Quiet Storm

Vatican contradicts German bishops: text for blessing same-sex couples was not approved

Rome to host official launch of Religious Freedom Report 2025

Vatican announces date of its second report on protection against abuse

Leo XIV overturns Pope Francis’ decision and restructures Vatican finances under one principle: shared responsibility

Canada: First Adoption of a Girl by Three Men in a «Polyamorous» Relationship