Towards Jubilee 2025: Pope Francis proclaims «year of prayer»

Jan 21, 2024 01:23

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis declared the "Year of Prayer" begun on that same Sunday, January 21, 2023 Photo: Gerardo Juárez (Cathopic)

Pope Francis

Pope Francis Closes January 2024 Conferring Ministries to Laymen and Launching Year of Prayer

Two people will receive the ministry of Lectorate and nine the ministry of Catechist. They are lay faithful that intend to represent the People of God and they come from Brazil, Bolivia, Korea, Chad, Germany and the Antilles

Jan 15, 2024 18:21

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Pope Francis

New Gallup Poll Shows Approval and Disapproval Levels of Pope Francis in the U.S.

Among U.S. Catholics, the Pontiff enjoys even higher esteem, with a 77% favorable rating. However, this number is also below the average for this group, and his disapproval rate has reached a new high of 17%.

Jan 14, 2024 00:55

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Pope Francis•Young People

What Is “Short-Term or Weak Thinking”? Pope Francis Explains It to Recently Graduated Young People

The Pope’s address to scholarship holders of the Toniolo Young Professional Association on the occasion of its 10th Annual Assembly

Jan 12, 2024 21:45

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

What Does It Mean for the Church to Communicate? The Pope’s Three Answers for Communication Offices

The Holy Father’s address to the participants in the Symposium “University for Ecclesiastical Communicators”

Jan 12, 2024 21:41

ZENIT Staff

Ecumenism•Pope Francis

Pope to Orthodox: “I Believe that Our Past Histories Can Gradually Be Healed”

The Holy Father’s address to the Catholic Committee for Cultural Collaboration with the Orthodox Churches and the Oriental Orthodox Churches

Jan 12, 2024 21:35

ZENIT Staff

The art of refraining from taking advantage of fame, popularity, and success, according to Pope Leo XIV

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, January 18, 2026

Pope Leo XIV approves a jubilee year to mark 800 years since the death of St. Francis: here’s what you need to know

As part of the centenary observances, the Holy See has also announced an exceptional opportunity for veneration: from 22 February to 22 March 2026, the body of Saint Francis will be brought out of its crypt

Towards Jubilee 2025: Pope Francis proclaims «year of prayer»

Pope Francis to Catholic universities: communicating «knowledge, the word of God and an authentic humanism”

More than 65 million babies have been aborted in the U.S. since 1973, according to a new report

Pope Francis Explains Lust and Two Contaminatiions It Produces

Pope Francis receives former president of Argentina at Vatican

USA: bishops release first report on religious freedom in the country

Lebanon: Maronite Catholic patriarch says Lebanese oppose war against Israel

Pope Francis Closes January 2024 Conferring Ministries to Laymen and Launching Year of Prayer

New Gallup Poll Shows Approval and Disapproval Levels of Pope Francis in the U.S.

What Is “Short-Term or Weak Thinking”? Pope Francis Explains It to Recently Graduated Young People

What Does It Mean for the Church to Communicate? The Pope’s Three Answers for Communication Offices

Pope to Orthodox: “I Believe that Our Past Histories Can Gradually Be Healed”