Inspiring: More Than 400 Iraqi Children Make Their First Communion

Jul 10, 2025 06:44

Rafael Llanes

400 Iraqi Children Make Their First Communion Photo: RRSS

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Vocations

Ordinations Across a Shifting Continent: A Fragmented Yet Revealing Portrait of Catholic Priesthood in Europe, 2025

According to the Vatican’s own «Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae», the number of priests in Europe declined by 1.6% in 2023 alone. That same year, Europe still held 38.1% of the world’s priests—but that share is steadily shrinking.

Jul 09, 2025 22:20

Covadonga Asturias

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians

Taybeh, the last fully Christian city in the West Bank, is facing increasing pressure from encroaching Jewish settlers

In a cover story titled “The Making of the Pope”, Time Magazine’s Belinda Luscombe paints a portrait of a man formed less by Vatican intrigue than by pastoral grit, theological patience, and the steady pressure of humility

Jul 09, 2025 22:15

Tim Daniels

Religious Freedom

Apple TV Series Airs Scene Mocking the Eucharist: These Are the Reactions

Catholicvote denounces the scene as «deliberate blasphemy» and comments: «Is it compatible with the ‘culture of dignity, respect, and opportunity for all’ to promote content that ridicules and degrades the Catholic faith? Would you allow an equivalent mockery of the Islamic or Jewish faith?» Josh Mercer asks in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Jul 09, 2025 22:00

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Pope Leo XIV

TIME dedicates its cover and a major report to Pope Leo XIV: From US Midwest Roots to the Chair of Peter

Jul 08, 2025 13:31

Tim Daniels

Local Church

Opus Dei Denies Accusation of «Trafficking» and Considers It Necessary to Grant the Accused Individuals the Right to Give Their Version of the Facts

«We reiterate that we categorically deny the accusation of human trafficking and labour exploitation made by her against Prelature,» states the press release from Opus Dei in Argentina.

Jul 07, 2025 13:35

ZENIT Staff

Trump attacks the Pope again, and Leo XIV responds once more: “If anyone wishes to criticize me, let them do so with the truth”

The controversy erupted anew during a televised phone interview in which Trump, speaking to conservative host Hugh Hewitt, suggested that the Pope’s priorities were misplaced and even dangerous

What does it mean that Jesus is preparing a place for us in heaven? Pope Leo XIV explains it

Address on the occasion of the Regina Coeli prayer on Sunday, April 3, 2026

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Inspiring: More Than 400 Iraqi Children Make Their First Communion

How Is the Jubilee Going and What Impressions Do Those Who Organized It Have? ZENIT’s Interview with Monsignor Rino Fisichella

First Woman with Dwarfism on the Path to Canonization Thanks to Leo XIV

Vatican gives new nihil obstat to Marian apparitions in Litmanová, Slovakia

Pope Leo XIV receives Zelensky: open doors to Russia and Ukraine for negotiations and invitation to visit Ukraine

Who Is Afraid of Catholic Saints? A Strange Campaign Against Carlo Acutis

Pope Leo XIV avoids schism, ends mission of bishop in liturgical dispute in India

Ordinations Across a Shifting Continent: A Fragmented Yet Revealing Portrait of Catholic Priesthood in Europe, 2025

Taybeh, the last fully Christian city in the West Bank, is facing increasing pressure from encroaching Jewish settlers

Apple TV Series Airs Scene Mocking the Eucharist: These Are the Reactions

TIME dedicates its cover and a major report to Pope Leo XIV: From US Midwest Roots to the Chair of Peter

Opus Dei Denies Accusation of «Trafficking» and Considers It Necessary to Grant the Accused Individuals the Right to Give Their Version of the Facts