Pope Francis Reforms the Roman Basilica of Saint Mary Major: These Are the New Measures

Mar 20, 2024 00:09

Valentina di Giorgio

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Vatican City

Vatican announces dates for second part of synod on synodality in 2024

The Second Session of the XVI Assembly will be preceded by two days of spiritual retreat, from September 30th to October 1st (participants will arrive on September 29th).

Feb 18, 2024 03:30

ZENIT Staff

Vatican City

Vatican Museums offer special tour during the period of Lent 2024

Each tour will have a theme that will bring visitors closer to the works and artists of the Vatican collections that have depicted, over the centuries, the episodes of the Passion and Resurrection of the Lord.

Feb 15, 2024 22:50

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Vatican City

Pope to Vatican police: thank you for guaranteeing pilgrims and tourists the opportunity to experience moments of faith and prayer

Pope’s address to the leaders and staff of the Vatican Public Security Inspectorate

Feb 10, 2024 05:22

ZENIT Staff

Causes of Saints•Pope Francis•Vatican City

The teachings of Argentina’s new saint, Mama Antula, explained by the Pope

Address to a group of Argentine pilgrims arriving in Rome for the canonization of Maria Antonia of St. Joseph

Feb 09, 2024 03:59

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Vatican City•Woman

Anglican «bishop» woman who spoke before the Pope: I was invited «to describe the Anglican way for women’s ordination.»

However, the Anglican «bishop’s» hope found a limit on Thursday, the 8th, by Pope Francis himself. In a speech to the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Pope once again made it clear about the role of women in the Church that «it cannot be reduced to mere ministerial roles.»

Feb 08, 2024 23:33

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Leo XIV calls the liturgy the “driving force of evangelization” and urges priests to respect liturgical texts and norms

The Pope’s General Audience, May 27, 2026, on Tradition and Reform in the Liturgy

Pope Leo XIV receives Spain’s atheist president amid a political crisis in the country he is about to visit

The approximately 45-minute private audience between Sánchez and the Pope unfolded against a turbulent domestic backdrop. On the same day, Spanish political debate was dominated by developments involving investigations linked to the Socialist Party and the legal scrutiny surrounding former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Pope Francis Reforms the Roman Basilica of Saint Mary Major: These Are the New Measures

Gift, care and community: the Pope’s Hospital that heals children (with a reflection of Francis)

Before a Next Conclave, Historian Suggests a Reform That Makes It Slower and Says Why

Story of Vatican Secret Archive Recounted in a Book by Its Prefect: Conclave, Napoleon and Pius XII and the Black Legend

From Tourist to Pilgrim: Vatican launches mini-website to recount the experience of pilgrimage to 4 papal basilicas

Vatican issues stamp commemorating St. John Bosco’s dream

First Auditor General of the Vatican Appeals Ruling of the Vatican Court

Vatican announces dates for second part of synod on synodality in 2024

Vatican Museums offer special tour during the period of Lent 2024

Pope to Vatican police: thank you for guaranteeing pilgrims and tourists the opportunity to experience moments of faith and prayer

The teachings of Argentina’s new saint, Mama Antula, explained by the Pope

Anglican «bishop» woman who spoke before the Pope: I was invited «to describe the Anglican way for women’s ordination.»