Pope Leo speaks with Israeli president and reiterates condemnation of anti-Semitism

Dec 17, 2025 11:23

Enrique Villegas

Pope Leo XIV and Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke by telephone. Photo: Vatican Media

Religious Freedom

NC high school student sues school district for censoring her Charlie Kirk tribute

A family is suing the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education for censoring the speech of their high school daughter who painted a rock on school grounds with the words “Freedom 1776” and “Live Like Kirk—John 11:25” after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Dec 15, 2025 10:02

ZENIT Staff

Good News•Pope Leo XIV

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

Dec 14, 2025 22:01

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Angelus•Pope Leo XIV

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

Dec 14, 2025 21:58

ZENIT Staff

Jubilee 2025•Pope Leo XIV

“Let no one be lost! Let everyone be saved!” The Pope’s homily that every prisoner (and family member or friend of a prisoner) should read

Pope’s Mass on the occasion of the Jubilee for the prison world

Dec 14, 2025 21:55

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Pope Leo XIV

From Conclave to Clickstream: How Two Popes Dominated Global Curiosity on the Web in 2025

Indications reflect a rare convergence. The death of one Pope and the swift election of another marked more than a leadership transition; they transformed the Catholic Church into one of the most searched, read, and debated topics of the year.

Dec 14, 2025 09:55

Jorge Enrique Mújica

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

Pope Leo XIV Receives Nobel Prize Laureate Maria Corina Machado: This Is What the Venezuelan Leader Asked Him

Maria Corina Machado also expressed to the Pope the importance of the civic demonstration carried out by Venezuelans on July 28, 2024, which reaffirmed the legitimacy of President Edmundo González Urrutia.

Pope Leo speaks with Israeli president and reiterates condemnation of anti-Semitism

Benedict XVI’s former secretary in Rome: reconciliation with Francis, traditional Mass, and canonization of Joseph Ratzinger

Nicaraguan dictatorship bans Bibles from entering the country

Faith at 35,000 Feet: United Airlines, Catholic Doctrine, and the Limits of Corporate Tolerance

First woman to lead Anglican church could resign before taking office over mishandling of abuse cases

Trump Administration’s Anti-Immigration Czar, a Catholic, Speaks Out Against US Church’s Message

Following ADF lawsuit, Houston school district respects parents’ wishes concerning daughter

NC high school student sues school district for censoring her Charlie Kirk tribute

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

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

“Let no one be lost! Let everyone be saved!” The Pope’s homily that every prisoner (and family member or friend of a prisoner) should read

From Conclave to Clickstream: How Two Popes Dominated Global Curiosity on the Web in 2025