The world’s oldest church has been found: where is it, what is it like, and how can you visit it?

Dec 23, 2025 15:32

ZENIT Staff

an archaeological site long studied by scholars has now been formally opened to the public Photo: Visit Jordan

Pope Leo XIV•Vocations

The current situation of the priesthood: this is what Leo XIV’s letter to priests says about identity, formation, loneliness, desertions, renewal, etc.

Leo XIV Recasts the Meaning of Priesthood for a Wounded Church

Dec 22, 2025 15:27

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Holy Land

Christmas in Gaza: the visit of the Cardinal Patriarch of Jerusalem to local Catholics

The cardinal is visiting Christian communities in Gaza, ravaged by more than two years of war

Dec 22, 2025 15:26

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Pope Leo XIV•Young People

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

The initiative, organized by the Centro Oratori Romani and dating back to 1969 under Paul VI, has long been a fixture of Advent in Rome

Dec 22, 2025 15:20

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Pope Leo XIV

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

The announcement, confirmed on 20 December by the Holy See Press Office, puts an end to weeks of speculation in Vatican circles

Dec 22, 2025 15:15

Elizabeth Owens

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Pope Leo XIV

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

Born in 1958 in Chingola, in what was then Northern Rhodesia and is now Zambia, Richard Moth grew up in Kent after his family returned to England. His vocation emerged early, influenced by parish life and a priest whose personal holiness left a lasting impression

Dec 22, 2025 15:12

Elizabeth Owens

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The world’s oldest church has been found: where is it, what is it like, and how can you visit it?

Freedom Before Christmas: Nigeria’s St. Mary’s Abductions End, but the Questions Remain

A simple, concrete, and timely meditation on work based on the nativity scene created by Leo XIV

2 two fundamental aspects of the life of the Church: mission and communion explained by Leo XIV to the curia in a great speech

Cardinal Damasceno confers ministries on 69 Heralds of the Gospel and hints at upcoming ordinations (end of Vatican intervention?)

A new “labor law” for the Vatican: this is what Pope Leo XIV approved

Polonia: Sunday Mass Attendance Rises as Sacramental Life Continues to Thin

The current situation of the priesthood: this is what Leo XIV’s letter to priests says about identity, formation, loneliness, desertions, renewal, etc.

Christmas in Gaza: the visit of the Cardinal Patriarch of Jerusalem to local Catholics

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