Jehovah’s Witnesses are open to the limited possibility of blood transfusions

Mar 24, 2026 18:00

The shift reflects an ongoing effort by the movement to navigate the interface between scriptural interpretation and modern medicine.

Liturgy and Divine Worship

Toward Liturgical Peace: One Missal, Two Forms. A Public Proposal to Pope Leo XIV from the Prestigious Abbey of Solesmes

The proposal arrives at a moment when liturgical questions—once considered largely settled—are again resurfacing with urgency

Mar 23, 2026 18:16

Covadonga Asturias

Cardinals and Bishops•Holy Land•Local Church

Jerusalem: Holy Week Behind Closed Doors. A Statement from the Catholic Patriarch

Statement by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

Mar 23, 2026 18:08

ZENIT Staff

Religious Freedom

USA: Indiana school district pays former music teacher $650,000 to settle religious discrimination case

Indiana music and orchestra teacher John Kluge is challenging the legality of Brownsburg Community School Corporation’s decision to revoke his religious accommodation over students’ pronoun usage. When the school district mandated that teachers call students by their preferred gender pronouns and names, Kluge requested a religious accommodation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to call all his students by their last names only—like a coach—instead of referring to female students with male names and pronouns and vice versa. The school district granted Kluge’s request based on his religious beliefs, and Kluge successfully continued teaching under the religious accommodation for an entire school year. But in response to the grumblings of a few students and faculty, the school district revoked the religious accommodation and forced Kluge to resign, ending his teaching career.

Mar 22, 2026 19:01

ZENIT Staff

Liturgy and Divine Worship

Questions about liturgy: Is the adoration of the Eucharist on Holy Thursday held in a monstrance or in a tabernacle?

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

Mar 22, 2026 18:54

Fr. Edward McNamara

Local Church

Belgian bishop threatens to ordain married men within two years

The bishop’s intervention revives a debate that has surfaced repeatedly but never fully matured into reform

Mar 22, 2026 18:42

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.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses are open to the limited possibility of blood transfusions

The unusual, candid, and widely praised letter from a European bishop urging confession

The largest statue of Jesus in the entire Middle East is being built in Lebanon, and here’s how it’s coming along

After seven years, Rhode Island report finds a past it cannot prosecute and a present it cannot condemn

How Many People Viewed the Relics of St. Francis of Assisi During the Month-Long Exposition of His Mortal Remains?

China: Children Barred from Church Doors. A Mother Speaks Up

Chaldean Catholics will elect their new patriarch in Rome next April

Toward Liturgical Peace: One Missal, Two Forms. A Public Proposal to Pope Leo XIV from the Prestigious Abbey of Solesmes

Jerusalem: Holy Week Behind Closed Doors. A Statement from the Catholic Patriarch

USA: Indiana school district pays former music teacher $650,000 to settle religious discrimination case

Questions about liturgy: Is the adoration of the Eucharist on Holy Thursday held in a monstrance or in a tabernacle?

Belgian bishop threatens to ordain married men within two years