The Pope’s Global Prayer Network has a new director: this is what the network looks like and does

Dec 13, 2024 13:54

Father Cristóbal Fones, SJ, will take up the role of International Director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network Photo: Jesuits

Combining Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours

Good News•Testimonies

The Moving Story of a Religious Congregation with Sisters Who Have Down Syndrome

The religious community founded to give individuals with Down syndrome the opportunity to dedicate their lives to God is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Dec 12, 2024 17:29

Dante Alba, LC

Cardinals and Bishops

New digital resource revolutionizes understanding of Church leadership ahead of eventual Conclave

The initiative responds to the evolving dynamics within the Sacred College under Pope Francis. Many newly appointed cardinals hail from “peripheral” regions and are less familiar to their peers. With fewer regular consistories and limited opportunities for in-person meetings, the cardinals often lack comprehensive insights into each other’s backgrounds and perspectives

Dec 12, 2024 17:20

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Pope Francis•Vatican Diplomacy

A Historic Icon and a Call for Peace: Pope Francis Meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

According to a statement from the Vatican Press Office, the dialogue emphasized the urgency of a ceasefire and the liberation of hostages in Gaza. Both parties reiterated their condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and stressed the necessity of dialogue and diplomacy to achieve a two-state solution

Dec 12, 2024 17:15

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Pope Francis•Vocations

See Vocation as a Pilgrimage: Pope’s Address to Spanish Seminarians

Meeting of the Pope with the community of the Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Santiago de Compostela, Tui-Vigo and Mondoñedo-Ferrol

Dec 12, 2024 06:58

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Virgin Mary

The Pope, the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Ideologies that Have Instrumentalized Her

Words of the Pope at the mass on the occasion of the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Dec 12, 2024 06:54

ZENIT Staff

This is what the letter says—the surprising and important letter that Leo XIV sent to the cardinals ahead of the Consistory in June 2026

Letter from Pope Leo XIV to the cardinals ahead of the upcoming consistory in 2026

Although there are no diplomatic relations, the President of the National Assembly of Vietnam invites Pope Leo XIV to visit the country

The President of the National Assembly in Hanoi presented the Pope with a letter from the President, who is now firmly at the helm of power in Vietnam. It was precisely internal disagreements over the local political balance of power that had slowed down the preparations for the visit, which is so eagerly awaited by the Catholic community. Cardinal Parolin is due to visit soon to establish full diplomatic relations. The possibility of 2027, when the Pope is already expected in Seoul for World Youth Day.

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The Pope’s Global Prayer Network has a new director: this is what the network looks like and does

The Papal Foundation Awards $800,000 in Scholarships to 110 Priests, Brothers, Sisters, and Lay Faithful

Israel frees two young Christian women arbitrarily detained by Jewish regime

Study reveals that non-churchgoers would go to Mass at Christmas if invited by someone else

New lectionary announced for Mass in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand

Mexico, the most dangerous country to be a priest (during López Obrador’s six-year term)

Questions about liturgy: Combining Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours

The Moving Story of a Religious Congregation with Sisters Who Have Down Syndrome

New digital resource revolutionizes understanding of Church leadership ahead of eventual Conclave

A Historic Icon and a Call for Peace: Pope Francis Meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

See Vocation as a Pilgrimage: Pope’s Address to Spanish Seminarians

The Pope, the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Ideologies that Have Instrumentalized Her