Clergy Arrests, ICE Raids, and a City on Edge as Minnesota’s Churches Confront America’s Immigration Crackdown

Jan 29, 2026 18:27

nearly 100 members of the clergy allowed themselves to be handcuffed and led away at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport Photo: RRSS

Bioethics

Assisted suicide increases by 30% in Spain: the drift toward which other countries are heading

Newly released official figures show that 426 people ended their lives through state-approved assisted suicide or euthanasia in 2021 — a 27.54% increase over 2023, when 334 deaths were recorded

Jan 28, 2026 17:37

Covadonga Asturias

General Audience•Pope Leo XIV

What is the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Tradition? Pope Leo XIV responds

Pope’s general audience, January 28, 2026, on the relationship between Scripture and Tradition

Jan 28, 2026 17:27

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace•Local Church

Mexico’s Bishops Raise Their Voice After Football Field Massacre and Attack on Puebla Cathedral

The Mexican Bishops’ Conference (CEM) issued a forceful statement following two shocking incidents: a mass shooting that left at least 11 people dead at a community football field in Salamanca, Guanajuato, on Sunday, January 25, and an attempted arson attack against Puebla’s historic cathedral the previous night

Jan 28, 2026 11:25

Enrique Villegas

Cardinals and Bishops•Interview

The Consistory, The Situation of Christians in Iraq, and Their Return to Baghdad After a Brief Exile: An Interview with Cardinal Sako

Having participated on January 7-8, 2026, in the first Extraordinary Consistory of Pope Leo XIV in Rome, Cardinal Sako shares his reactions with ZENIT and discusses the Chaldean Church in Iraq.

Jan 28, 2026 10:59

ZENIT Staff

Vatican City

Federico Lombardi Leaves the Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Foundation; Roberto Regoli Takes His Place.

The Vatican Secretariat of State, which oversees the Foundation, has ordered its renewal and the necessary modifications.

Jan 27, 2026 22:36

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV Speaks Again About Trump and the War (and It Is Announced That the Pope Will Carry the Cross Throughout the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday)

Referring indirectly to geopolitical developments, including statements by Donald Trump about ending ongoing conflicts, Leo expressed cautious hope that political leaders might be seeking “a way out” of violence

Pope Leo XIV Reverses Another Decision of Pope Francis: World Children’s Day Cancelled in Rome

All initiatives aimed at children’s ministry may be celebrated, at the discretion of the Bishops, at the diocesan or parish level.

Clergy Arrests, ICE Raids, and a City on Edge as Minnesota’s Churches Confront America’s Immigration Crackdown

Leo XIV to the Congregation for the Dicastery of the Faith: transmission of the faith, proclamation without protagonism or particularism, and justice, truth, and charity in accusations of abuse

Armenian Prime Minister confronts Patriarch Kakerin: he wants to remove him from office and calls him schismatic

What a survey in Germany reveals: Youth Interest Rises as Catholics Distance Themselves from the Synodal Way

Germany: Catholic excluded for the first time because of his political views

“We cannot vote on the Resurrection”: Cardinal of Cologne absent from German Synodal Path meeting and considers it over

Charism, governance, and communion: Three reflections from the Pope to the consecrated lay members of Regnum Christi

Assisted suicide increases by 30% in Spain: the drift toward which other countries are heading

What is the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Tradition? Pope Leo XIV responds

Mexico’s Bishops Raise Their Voice After Football Field Massacre and Attack on Puebla Cathedral

The Consistory, The Situation of Christians in Iraq, and Their Return to Baghdad After a Brief Exile: An Interview with Cardinal Sako

Federico Lombardi Leaves the Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Foundation; Roberto Regoli Takes His Place.