Mid-City Christian: What is the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Tradition?

Friday, January 30, 2026

What is the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Tradition?

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

ZENIT Staff

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.

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

Enrique Villegas

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

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

ZENIT Staff

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

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

Covadonga Asturias

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

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

ZENIT Staff

Address of the Pope to the consecrated men and women of Regnum Christi at a special audience on the occasion of their respective General Assemblies

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

Joachin Meisner Hertz

The German Synodal Path has become a test case for how far local churches can go before they collide with the apostolic structure of Catholicism itself. For the Cardinal of Cologne, the line has already been crossed

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

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Vatican Upholds Removal of German AfD Lawmaker from Parish Council, Marking a Rare Intervention in Church–Politics Relations

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

Jorge Enrique Mújica

And when it comes to the highly publicized Synodaler Weg (Synodal Way), the ambitious reform process launched by the German bishops and lay leaders in 2019, enthusiasm appears limited. Only 21 percent of Catholics consider it “right,” while 17 percent view it as “wrong.” A striking 58 percent either declined to answer or said they did not know — suggesting that the Synodal Way

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

ZENIT Staff

The initiative, reportedly supported by ten Armenian bishops, represents an unprecedented escalation in a conflict that has been simmering for months between Armenia’s government and the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the spiritual center of the Armenian Apostolic Church