International news in an interview with Pope Leo XIV: Israel, Venezuela, the German synodal path, and a trip to Africa

Dec 02, 2025 22:08

ZENIT Staff

Press conference with Pope Leo XIV on the flight from Lebanon to Italy Photo: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV

Caritas Internationalis, the charitable arm of the Church, in audience with Pope Leo XIV

Address of the Pope to the Members of the Council of Caritas Internationalis

Nov 21, 2025 15:39

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV

PHOTO GALLERY: Pope Leo XIV makes his first visit as pope to the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi

The encounter lasted only a short while, yet it left a distinct impression—an intimate gesture at a time when the Church is preparing for one of its most significant milestones of the decade: the 800th anniversary of the death of the Poverello of Assisi, to be commemorated in 2026.

Nov 20, 2025 20:31

ZENIT Staff

General Audience•Pope Leo XIV

How are Jesus’ death and resurrection the foundation of a spirituality of integral ecology? Pope Leo answers

Pope’s general audience, November 19, 2025, on the foundation of a spirituality of integral ecology

Nov 19, 2025 16:59

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Persecuted Christians

1 Catholic priest and 25 secondary school girls kidnapped in Nigeria

The Archdiocese of Kaduna, shaken but accustomed to issuing such statements, urged the country to unite in prayer for the safe return of all those abducted. But in Nigeria—a nation that has lived with kidnappings for ransom on a massive scale for more than a decade—prayer is only one element of a painfully familiar ritual

Nov 18, 2025 17:48

Elizabeth Owens

Pope Leo XIV

This was Pope Leo XIV’s important call for liturgical formation

Address of the Pope to participants in the refresher course for diocesan leaders in liturgical ministry

Nov 18, 2025 09:36

ZENIT Staff

A simple, concrete, and timely meditation on work based on the nativity scene created by Leo XIV

Congratulations to the employees of the Roman Curia, the Governorate of Vatican City State, and the Vicariate of Rome, together with their families.

2 two fundamental aspects of the life of the Church: mission and communion explained by Leo XIV to the curia in a great speech

Address of the Pope to the Roman Curia on two fundamental aspects of the life of the Church: mission and communion, on the occasion of the annual Christmas greetings

International news in an interview with Pope Leo XIV: Israel, Venezuela, the German synodal path, and a trip to Africa

[Pope in Lebanon: Day 1] What does it mean to be peacemakers? Pope Leo XIV responds during a meeting with civil authorities in Lebanon

Connected faith, living prayer in the digital age: 3 reflections from the Pope to the superiors of male religious congregations

Pope invites us to pray for Christian communities living in areas of war or conflict: here is the video

This is what working hours will be like in the Vatican and the protection against nepotism according to the new Regulations of Leo XIV

What does it mean to be part of a choir? Liturgical music (and singing) reflected upon by Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV corrects Pope Francis’ canonical error: now any woman (or lay person) can be governor of the Vatican

Caritas Internationalis, the charitable arm of the Church, in audience with Pope Leo XIV

PHOTO GALLERY: Pope Leo XIV makes his first visit as pope to the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi

How are Jesus’ death and resurrection the foundation of a spirituality of integral ecology? Pope Leo answers

1 Catholic priest and 25 secondary school girls kidnapped in Nigeria

This was Pope Leo XIV’s important call for liturgical formation