Measuring the Call: New Study Exposes Strengths and Gaps in U.S. Seminary Assessments

Sep 28, 2025 19:27

suggests that while seminaries and dioceses have made measurable progress in evaluating candidates, the process remains uneven Photo: Vatican News

Cardinals and Bishops•Dicasteries•Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo entrusts the important Dicastery that elects bishops to a Carmelite and canonist

The appointment ends months of speculation that Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the prominent Filipino prelate serving at the Dicastery for Evangelization, might be chosen for the post

Sep 26, 2025 19:32

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Gender Ideology

Catholics and gender ideology

The Body Reveals the Person: A Catholic Response to the Challenges of Gender Ideology, by Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, is a thoughtful, beautifully illustrated, and thoroughly documented text that should be read in full.

Sep 26, 2025 19:23

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Pro Life•Vatican Diplomacy

Andorra will approve abortion despite the fact that its head of state is a Catholic bishop

Josep-Lluis Serrano Pentinat, the recently installed bishop of Urgell and, by virtue of that role, co-prince of Andorra, now finds himself at the center of an unfolding political and moral drama

Sep 26, 2025 19:13

Covadonga Asturias

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Image of Christ scourged, destroyed by Jewish extremist, reinstalled in Jerusalem

The restoration, entrusted to the Spanish restorer Pedro Escudero, was a work of patience and skill. For two months, day after day, Escudero rebuilt the missing parts, strengthened the broken legs and brought back the brightness of the original colors, up to the final varnishing

Sep 26, 2025 19:01

ZENIT Staff

Gender Ideology•Local Church

U.S. Bishops Enter Supreme Court Clash Over Transgender Athletes and Women’s Sports

The bishops argue that existing state laws protecting female-only teams are constitutionally sound, and that undoing them would cause “disastrous practical consequences” for Catholic schools and institutions

Sep 25, 2025 17:42

Tim Daniels

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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Measuring the Call: New Study Exposes Strengths and Gaps in U.S. Seminary Assessments

Pope Leo XIV Announces Date on Which He Will Make John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church

What Meaning Do Intuitions Have in the Church? Pope Leo XIV Explains It in a Catechesis

Questions about liturgy: ¿Bows Toward Priests?

On the controversy in the German episcopate regarding Leo XIV’s clear “no” to liturgical blessings for gay couples

From the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV and Terminator to fight for climate justice: this is what the meeting will be like

What Gift Did the President of Ferrari Give Pope Leo XIV at the Audience Granted Him?

Pope Leo entrusts the important Dicastery that elects bishops to a Carmelite and canonist

Catholics and gender ideology

Andorra will approve abortion despite the fact that its head of state is a Catholic bishop

Image of Christ scourged, destroyed by Jewish extremist, reinstalled in Jerusalem

U.S. Bishops Enter Supreme Court Clash Over Transgender Athletes and Women’s Sports