Slovakia legally protects its Constitution against gender ideology: there are only two genders

Sep 30, 2025 11:58

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Prime Minister Robert Fico Photo: Reuters

Good News•Local Church

World’s Largest Statue Dedicated to the Virgin Mary Is Inaugurated in Brazil

The first pieces crafted by sculptor Ranilson Viana arrived in Crato from the city of Petrolina, Pernambuco. The monument to Our Lady of Fatima, made up of several levels that will be assembled, rises 51 meters. The first pieces will be installed in October.

Sep 29, 2025 06:36

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV’s homily for catechists and the vindication of the catechism as an instrument against ecclesial discord

Homily by Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of the jubilee Mass for catechists

Sep 28, 2025 19:50

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

Assisi: Meloni to attend St. Francis’ Day celebrations after it is approved as a national holiday

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, accompanied by Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli, will join pilgrims and church leaders in the Umbrian town for the annual liturgy and civic ceremonies

Sep 28, 2025 19:44

Valentina di Giorgio

Local Church•Vocations

Poland 2025: European leader in number of vocations

This year’s class is made up of 141 diocesan priests and 67 men from religious orders. Tarnów again leads the nation, with 13 ordinations, a figure that in most European dioceses would be unthinkable

Sep 28, 2025 19:42

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Ecumenism•Jubilee 2025•Pope Leo XIV•Vatican Diplomacy

Official: British monarchs announce state visit to Pope Leo XIV

The October gathering will therefore carry a double resonance: continuity with the memory of Francis, and the promise of a new chapter under Leo

Sep 28, 2025 19:36

Jorge Enrique Mújica

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

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

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Slovakia legally protects its Constitution against gender ideology: there are only two genders

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Grandmother arrested for praying outside a clinic where babies are killed and carrying a sign

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World’s Largest Statue Dedicated to the Virgin Mary Is Inaugurated in Brazil

Pope Leo XIV’s homily for catechists and the vindication of the catechism as an instrument against ecclesial discord

Assisi: Meloni to attend St. Francis’ Day celebrations after it is approved as a national holiday

Poland 2025: European leader in number of vocations

Official: British monarchs announce state visit to Pope Leo XIV