Assisi: Meloni to attend St. Francis’ Day celebrations after it is approved as a national holiday
Valentina di Giorgio
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, accompanied by Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli, will join pilgrims and church leaders in the Umbrian town for the annual liturgy and civic ceremonies
Poland 2025: European leader in number of vocations
Joachin Meisner Hertz
This year’s class is made up of 141 diocesan priests and 67 men from religious orders. Tarnów again leads the nation, with 13 ordinations, a figure that in most European dioceses would be unthinkable
Official: British monarchs announce state visit to Pope Leo XIV
Jorge Enrique Mújica
The October gathering will therefore carry a double resonance: continuity with the memory of Francis, and the promise of a new chapter under Leo
Measuring the Call: New Study Exposes Strengths and Gaps in U.S. Seminary Assessments
Jorge Enrique Mújica
The research also highlights the human complexity of vocation. Respondents were asked how they determine whether a man has sufficiently worked through personal trauma. The answers reveal a pastoral instinct as much as a scientific one: openness to therapy, transparency with formation teams, evidence of growth in prayer and self-awareness, and the ability to integrate past wounds into a mature spiritual life
What Meaning Do Intuitions Have in the Church? Pope Leo XIV Explains It in a Catechesis
ZENIT Staff
General Audience of Pope Leo XIV, September 27, 2025, on Intuitions
Questions about liturgy: ¿Bows Toward Priests?
ZENIT Staff
Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.
On the controversy in the German episcopate regarding Leo XIV’s clear “no” to liturgical blessings for gay couples
Jorge Enrique Mújica
The Pope’s remarks on same-sex blessings were characteristically nuanced but left little room for ritual experimentation. He acknowledged that all persons may receive God’s blessing but cautioned against the creation of liturgical formulas for couples, a practice he said runs contrary to the 2023 Vatican declaration «Fiducia Supplicans».
What Gift Did the President of Ferrari Give Pope Leo XIV at the Audience Granted Him?
ZENIT Staff
The meeting served as a space for mutual understanding and provided an opportunity to address topics of direct interest to the Holy Father, such as social responsibility, sustainability, and the ethics of innovation.
From the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV and Terminator to fight for climate justice: this is what the meeting will be like
ZENIT Staff
By bringing together a Hollywood icon, a Brazilian stateswoman, and a global network of religious leaders, Castel Gandolfo is set to become a stage where the Church seeks to turn moral authority into concrete action
Pope Leo entrusts the important Dicastery that elects bishops to a Carmelite and canonist
ZENIT Staff
The appointment ends months of speculation that Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the prominent Filipino prelate serving at the Dicastery for Evangelization, might be chosen for the post
Catholics and gender ideology
ZENIT Staff
The Body Reveals the Person: A Catholic Response to the Challenges of Gender Ideology, by Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, is a thoughtful, beautifully illustrated, and thoroughly documented text that should be read in full.
Andorra will approve abortion despite the fact that its head of state is a Catholic bishop
Covadonga Asturias
Josep-Lluis Serrano Pentinat, the recently installed bishop of Urgell and, by virtue of that role, co-prince of Andorra, now finds himself at the center of an unfolding political and moral drama
Image of Christ scourged, destroyed by Jewish extremist, reinstalled in Jerusalem
ZENIT Staff
The restoration, entrusted to the Spanish restorer Pedro Escudero, was a work of patience and skill. For two months, day after day, Escudero rebuilt the missing parts, strengthened the broken legs and brought back the brightness of the original colors, up to the final varnishing
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