Pope Warns Synod: Either the Church Is the Holy People of God or It Ends Up Being a Service Company

Oct 25, 2023 22:57

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis at the 18th General Congregation Photo: Vatican Media

Documents•Local Church

USA: Two Bishops Publish Letter on Gender Ideology (Full Text)

The Letter is signed by the Archbishop of San Francisco and the Bishop of Oakland, a Jesuit as Pope Francis.

Oct 24, 2023 17:12

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

USA: Percentage Increases of Catholics That Believe in The Real Presence of Christ in The Eucharist

The figure is a substantial increase, compared with the Pew Research study that pointed out in 2019 that only 31% of Catholics believed “that, during a Catholic Mass, the bread and wine really become the Body and Blood of Jesus.”

Oct 24, 2023 17:08

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion

The solitude of the patriarch: Kirill of Russia stands alone in the Orthodox world

Kirill’s appeal to all the heads of the Orthodox Churches against the ban on Russian jurisdiction of Orthodoxy in Ukraine sanctioned by the Kiev parliament has gone unanswered. While the sending of Metropolitan Tikhon to Crimea, the most contested front line, many are wondering whether this is yet another punishment or a possible ecclesiastic and political exaltation.

Oct 23, 2023 22:36

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Holy Land

Israel Versus Hamas: Polarization of Public Opinion and Veto Demonstrated in the Streets

In an effective summary on the subject, The Financial Times reports on the wave of Islamophobia throughout the European Continent. In London, anti-terrorists agents searched the home of an Anglo-Palestinian surgeon — who travelled to Gaza to care for civilians wounded in the bombings –, apparently for no justifiable reason.

Oct 23, 2023 16:59

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis

In response to attacks on hospital and parish in Gaza, Palestine, Pope raises his voice and expresses sorrow

«I grieve that also the Anglican hospital and the Greek Orthodox parish have been hit in the past days,» the Pope said before 20 thousand people.

Oct 22, 2023 02:27

ZENIT Staff

Photo Gallery: Leo XIV Now Has An Official Mosaic to Enrich St. Paul’s Basilica, and This Is How He Reacted When It Was Shown to Him

Just over eight months after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican Mosaic Workshop has completed the mosaic portrait for the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, at the request of the Archpriest of the Basilica, Cardinal James Michael Harvey.

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 Warns Synod: Either the Church Is the Holy People of God or It Ends Up Being a Service Company

Letter to the People of God at the end of the Synod of the Church 2024: Synodality is the way God expects of the Church

USA: Representatives from Catholic and Pentecostal Churches Meet for Ecumenical Dialogue

Bishop tells UK parliament prayer will conquer jihadism

Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem’s moving letter on the situation in the Holy Land

What the US can learn from secularism in Europe, priest explains

Argentina Is To Have a New Saint: Pope Approves Miracle of “Mamá Antula”

USA: Two Bishops Publish Letter on Gender Ideology (Full Text)

USA: Percentage Increases of Catholics That Believe in The Real Presence of Christ in The Eucharist

The solitude of the patriarch: Kirill of Russia stands alone in the Orthodox world

Israel Versus Hamas: Polarization of Public Opinion and Veto Demonstrated in the Streets

In response to attacks on hospital and parish in Gaza, Palestine, Pope raises his voice and expresses sorrow