What does the letter sent to all bishops on the eve of the synod on synodality say?

Sep 16, 2023 18:56

ZENIT Staff

Cardinal Mario Grech Invites You to Participate in Prayer for the Next General Assembly of Bishops Photo: Vatican News

Vatican City

Provocation at the Vatican? Russian artist intends to exhibit work on Vatican border

Valentina di Giorgio (ZENIT News / Rome, 09.11.2023).- His name is Andrei Molodkin, and he is Russian. He’s also referred to as an artist, but he practices a very particular form of art: protest art using human blood. He is planning to […]

Sep 11, 2023 00:08

ZENIT Staff

Church and World•Vatican City

Vatican Responds to Ukrainian President’s Advisor: Russia Has No Investments in the Vatican

A clarifying statement underlines that «Firstly, the IOR does not accept as clients institutions or individuals who do not have a close relationship with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. Secondly, the IOR is a supervised financial intermediary, operating through international correspondent banks of the highest level and of impeccable reputation that are governed by international standards.»

Sep 10, 2023 21:59

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Rome•Testimonies

Document proves that nuns and religious in Rome saved 3,200 Jews during Nazi persecution

Lists of people who took refuge in religious institutes in Rome to flee Nazi-Fascist persecution found

Sep 07, 2023 22:30

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Local Church

Catholic priests, with Vatican backing, make study visit to Orthodox Armenians

These study visits for young priests, organised annually since 2020 by the DPCU and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, aim to promote mutual understanding and fraternal relations.

Sep 05, 2023 17:04

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Rome

[From Rome] Pope Francis in Asia: A Trip to Mongolia to Evangelize with Messages for Russia and, Especially, for China

In the dialogue that the Pope seeks, be it with Russia or with China, is the imprint of evangelization. Imprint that, as he has underscored, isn’t proselytism, or, in other words: diplomacy from a new optic: pastoral care.

Sep 05, 2023 16:31

ZENIT Staff

Vogue praises the Pope’s “elegance” and places him on its annual list of best-dressed people

Vogue singled out the pope’s first public appearance after his election as the defining image of his papacy’s visual identity. Standing on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo XIV wore a red satin mozzetta and a wine-colored stole embroidered in gold, completed by a pectoral cross suspended from a golden silk cord

This is how the Pope explains how we are called to unite our waiting for the Savior with attention to what God is doing in the world

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, December 14, 2025

What does the letter sent to all bishops on the eve of the synod on synodality say?

Pope Francis Intervenes in the Pontifical Urban University

Prelate of Opus Dei reports on the work of adapting its Statutes

Syro-Malankara Orthodox celebrate Mass in one of Rome’s four main basilicas

200 years after the fire of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls, the bands of the Italian Army and the Vatican offer a concert

“Proclaiming Christ Unites Rather Than Divides,” Says Pope to Head of Syro-Malankar Orthodox

“Vatican Sports House” Opens, Headquarters of New “Sports Ministry”

Provocation at the Vatican? Russian artist intends to exhibit work on Vatican border

Vatican Responds to Ukrainian President’s Advisor: Russia Has No Investments in the Vatican

Document proves that nuns and religious in Rome saved 3,200 Jews during Nazi persecution

Catholic priests, with Vatican backing, make study visit to Orthodox Armenians

[From Rome] Pope Francis in Asia: A Trip to Mongolia to Evangelize with Messages for Russia and, Especially, for China