PHOTO GALLERY: Pope Leo XIV revives childhood tradition: mass blessing of “baby Jesus” figures at the Vatican

Dec 22, 2025 15:20

ZENIT Staff

Speaking directly to the children, the Pope entrusted them with a task of their own Photo: Reuters

Liturgy and Divine Worship

Questions about liturgy: Applause Within Mass

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

Dec 21, 2025 16:51

ZENIT Staff

General Audience•Jubilee 2025•Pope Leo XIV

What is the birth that creation awaits? Pope Leo XIV explains it in a catechesis

Extraordinary Saturday General Audience on the occasion of the Jubilee, December 20, 2025, the last of the Jubilee Year

Dec 20, 2025 17:46

ZENIT Staff

Testimonies

Military Chaplain at 59: The Story of a Future Catholic (Married) Priest in Ukraine

His vocation wasn’t born in his youth, but in a moment of profound sorrow. In 2023, during the funeral of Dmytro Pashchuk — a young soldier and his daughter’s fiancé — Petro felt something he recognized as a true experience of the Resurrection. This shook him to his core: the pain of loss became a call to give meaning to death.

Dec 20, 2025 17:26

Dante Alba, LC

Holy Land

Important New Archaeological Discovery in Jerusalem: Another Section of the Wall

The Hasmonean walls enclosed a much larger area than the present-day Old City of Jerusalem. They featured 60 watchtowers, each 33 feet tall according to ancient writings. The recently discovered section is one of the longest stretches of the Hasmonean walls found intact.

Dec 20, 2025 17:06

Rafael Llanes

Pro Life•Testimonies•Woman

The grandmother who went to jail for praying silently outside an abortion clinic

Christian grandmother Rose Docherty was arrested and criminally charged for holding a sign reading “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want” within 200m of a Glasgow hospital. Prosecution back down on “disproportionate” bail conditions; two charges relate to alleged “influencing” within the censorial “buffer zone”

Dec 20, 2025 16:54

ZENIT Staff

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 Leo XIV Receives Nobel Prize Laureate Maria Corina Machado: This Is What the Venezuelan Leader Asked Him

Maria Corina Machado also expressed to the Pope the importance of the civic demonstration carried out by Venezuelans on July 28, 2024, which reaffirmed the legitimacy of President Edmundo González Urrutia.

PHOTO GALLERY: Pope Leo XIV revives childhood tradition: mass blessing of “baby Jesus” figures at the Vatican

These are the three topics the Pope will address with cardinals in his first consistory

This is the new Catholic bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV for London: he is from Africa, enjoys horse riding, and was a soldier

To enter into Christmas: Pope Leo XIV’s beautiful, short, timely, and appropriate meditation on Saint Joseph

From 1991 to date, 70% of clinics that perform abortions in the US have closed, according to research

Restoring the Chaplain’s Call: U.S. Military Moves to Reclaim Spiritual Leadership

From Boardroom to Beatification: How an Argentine Businessman Is Redefining Holiness

Questions about liturgy: Applause Within Mass

What is the birth that creation awaits? Pope Leo XIV explains it in a catechesis

Military Chaplain at 59: The Story of a Future Catholic (Married) Priest in Ukraine

Important New Archaeological Discovery in Jerusalem: Another Section of the Wall

The grandmother who went to jail for praying silently outside an abortion clinic