One Hundred Days of Pope Leo: An Approximation

Aug 25, 2025 15:50

Simone Varisco

Pope Leo XIV Photo: Vatican Media

Local Church

Brazilian police arrest woman who digitally harassed a priest: she created and distributed false material

Police investigators reported that the harassment escalated in July and persisted until August 4, despite repeated warnings. The case began, according to testimony, after the woman sought spiritual guidance at the Sanctuary of Nova Veneza and attempted to initiate a personal relationship with the priest

Aug 23, 2025 01:13

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Local Church

Vatican approves new liturgical calendar for Arabia with its own calendar of saints

At the heart of the calendar are new patrons. Saints Peter and Paul, founders of the apostolic Church, now officially guide AVOSA as its pillars of faith, honored on June 29. Alongside them stands the Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Arabia, declared patroness of the entire Arabian Peninsula

Aug 23, 2025 01:11

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

Cardinal Zupi turns the names of children from Gaza into a 7-hour prayer by saying them one by one

The vigil, held at the Monte Sole memorial near Bologna, stretched into the night. A 469-page register listed 16 Israeli children killed in the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023, alongside more than 12,000 Palestinian children who perished in Gaza in the following months under Israeli bombardment and blockade

Aug 23, 2025 01:10

Valentina di Giorgio

Islam•Justice and Peace

Austria joins Canada and opens the door to Sharia (Islamic law) in the country

In practice, this means that private agreements invoking Islamic law, at least for property-related claims, can be recognized.

Aug 23, 2025 01:07

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Analysis Opinion

Can Transsexuals Be Baptized?

As the LGBTQ ideology comes increasingly to resemble a rival religious movement, we should recognize that it poses similar obstacles to discipleship. The movement possesses its own symbols, holy seasons, rites of initiation, social teachings, speech and purity codes, and inquisitorial methods. In “gender reassignment,” it promises a new identity, much as baptism does

Aug 23, 2025 01:05

ZENIT Staff

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

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Brazilian police arrest woman who digitally harassed a priest: she created and distributed false material

Vatican approves new liturgical calendar for Arabia with its own calendar of saints

Cardinal Zupi turns the names of children from Gaza into a 7-hour prayer by saying them one by one

Austria joins Canada and opens the door to Sharia (Islamic law) in the country

Can Transsexuals Be Baptized?