Barcelona: Antonio Gaudí’s Beatification Process Advances

Dec 22, 2023 00:35

Dante Alba, LC

Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan architect born in 1852 in the heart of a well-off family. Photo: Misioneros de África

Rome

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Causes of Saints•Pope Francis

Pope sets date for canonization of Argentinean «Mama Antula»

(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 12.16.2023).- After the usual consultation with the College of Cardinals, Pope Francis decided to proceed with the Canonization of Blessed María Antonia de San José (in secular life: María Antonia De Paz y Figueroa), known as Mama […]

Dec 16, 2023 20:42

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Woman

Vatican Explains That Single Mothers Can Go to Communion

Letter to His Excellency, The Most Reverend Ramón Alfredo de la Cruz Baldera, Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, on single mothers’ access to Eucharistic Communio.

Dec 14, 2023 14:05

ZENIT Staff

Church and World•Vatican City

UNESCO Approves Plan for Swiss Guard’s New Barracks in the Vatican

With this approval, the project’s detailed planning will begin in 2024 and the actual construction in early 2026.

Dec 12, 2023 23:43

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Vatican City

Pope Explains Why the Vatican’s Nativity Scene Evokes Bethlehem and Saint Francis

Greeting of His Holiness Pope Francis to the donors of the Nativity Scene and Christmas tree in Saint Peter’s Square

Dec 12, 2023 23:39

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries

Vatican on Ashes of Deceased: Could Be Preserved But Prohibited to Scatter

Response to His Eminence, Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna, on two questions regarding the preservation of ashes of the deceased subjected to cremation.

Dec 12, 2023 23:03

ZENIT Staff

Photo Gallery: Leo XIV Now Has An Official Mosaic to Enrich St. Paul’s Basilica, and This Is How He Reacted When It Was Shown to Him

Just over eight months after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican Mosaic Workshop has completed the mosaic portrait for the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, at the request of the Archpriest of the Basilica, Cardinal James Michael Harvey.

How Jesus Christ transforms man’s relationship with God, according to Pope Leo XIV

Pope’s general audience, January 14, 2026, on the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum on Divine Revelation

Barcelona: Antonio Gaudí’s Beatification Process Advances

Rome: Pope Francis goes to south city parish to speak with priests

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Vatican’s Yes to “Pastoral” Blessings on Homosexuals and Divorced, No to Liturgical or Semi-Liturgical Blessings

Vatican Sentences Cardinal Becciu: Prison, Fine and Not in Perpetuity Without Charges

Holy See dissolves the Loyola Community founded by Rupnik

Vatican hosts Arab League, Israel attacks Catholic parish in Gaza

Pope sets date for canonization of Argentinean «Mama Antula»

Vatican Explains That Single Mothers Can Go to Communion

UNESCO Approves Plan for Swiss Guard’s New Barracks in the Vatican

Pope Explains Why the Vatican’s Nativity Scene Evokes Bethlehem and Saint Francis

Vatican on Ashes of Deceased: Could Be Preserved But Prohibited to Scatter