Oct 7, 2026
At a recent event in Fort Worth, Texas, Seth Andrews explained why the "Christian nation" and "Judeo-Christian values" narrative is fiction, and he brought receipts.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
“The Orange Plague “ What the world sees clearly many Americans seem to be blind to.
On display in the lobby of the European Union Parliament. “The Orange Plague “. By a Danish artist Jens Galschiøt. What the world sees clearly many Americans seem to be blind to.
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Amoris Laetitia Week with Pope Leo
This morning, Pope Leo XIV opens a week-long meeting in Rome, ten years after Pope Francis promulgated his exhortation on Love and the Family, Amoris Laetitia. The meeting is titled “Ten Years After Amoris Laetitia: Proclaiming the Gospel With Families Today.”
Leo first announced this meeting on March 19, the anniversary of the signing of the exhortation and the feast of St. Joseph. It will bring together the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences, the heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches, twenty-two additional bishops and cardinals, and participating priests, religious, experts, laypeople, and married couples from around the world. The meeting will be held behind closed doors. According to Vatican News, there are 187 participants, including 111 conference presidents and four delegates, fifteen from the Eastern Churches, and twenty-two guests invited by the Pope. Among those guests are several Cardinals who played a crucial role in Francis’s pontificate and are known to support his teachings, including Americans Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin, and Curia Cardinals Tagle and Fernández.
Pope Francis’s Personal Diary Becomes a Book in Five Languages
After Two Failed Attempts to Execute Christa Pike, Tennessee Bishops Ask Whether Justice Requires Another Death
ZENIT Staff
Pike, 50, was convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She survived two doses of the lethal-injection drugs and was taken to hospital. The episode prompted Lee to suspend executions in Tennessee for the remainder of 2026 and order an independent review.
For the first time, a pope has received the unrecognized “union” of Vatican workers
ZENIT Staff
The association’s representatives emerged expressing satisfaction and a desire to respond to Leo’s invitation. Its executive secretary, Paola Monaco, said the organization intends to pursue dialogue with all parties concerned and described the papal meeting as a valuable opportunity.
Fake Priests, Unauthorized Clergy and a Growing Catholic Identity Problem in Mexico
Enrique Villegas
The problem has not been confined to a single parish. Similar requests have reportedly been made at private homes in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, with individuals seeking money in the name of particular parishes. In response, Catholic communities have used their social-media accounts to warn parishioners that the appeals were unauthorized.
Scotland: Bishops concerned at calls to decriminalise abortion
ZENIT Staff
The public debate on abortion often focuses exclusively on autonomy and choice. While personal freedom is important, rights must always be considered alongside responsibilities and the rights of others, including those who are unable to speak for themselves.
A $200,000 Settlement for an Aborted Child Raises a Stark Question About Legal Personhood
ZENIT Staff
The lawsuit was brought by the child’s mother, both individually and as legal representative of the estate of Baby Wabbington, against Southwestern Women’s Options, an Albuquerque abortion facility operated by physicians Curtis Wayne Boyd, Emily Cohen and Carmen Landau.
Brazil’s Election Turns Our Lady of Aparecida Into the Center of a Battle
Enrique Villegas
The religious dimension of the campaign is not accidental. Brazil remains a country in which Catholic and evangelical identities carry substantial political weight, although the two candidates draw support from different religious constituencies. The election has therefore encouraged both campaigns to speak to voters whose political choices are intertwined, in different ways, with their religious convictions.
Two Christian women killed in yet another Israeli military airstrike on Gaza
ZENIT Staff
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, expressed his “deep sorrow and grief” and offered condolences to the families and to Gaza’s Christian community
Vatican Imposes Sanctions on Argentine Bishop for Improper Conduct Reported by Adults
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Seirutti, 70, was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Córdoba in 1988 and was appointed auxiliary bishop by Pope Francis in 2015. His removal therefore represents a substantial change in the responsibilities he had exercised within the archdiocese, which is led by Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossi.
Biden Receives Pro-Abortion Award as U.S. Bishops Work to Oppose Referendums in Four States That Support the Killing of Babies
Tim Daniels
On November 3, voters in Virginia, Nevada, Idaho and Missouri are expected to decide measures that could significantly reshape abortion policy in their states. Catholic bishops and state Catholic conferences have responded with educational materials, videos, prayer cards, lawn signs and public statements, attempting to persuade voters that protecting unborn children should remain a political and moral priority.
These are the events announced by the Pontifical Swiss Guard to mark its 500th anniversary
ZENIT Staff
The year 2027 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Sacco di Roma (May 6, 1527). With the commemorative year « 500 Years of the Sacco di Roma », the Pontifical Swiss Guard pays tribute to the 189 guardsmen who faithfully fulfilled their mission to protect the Pope, with most of them sacrificing their own lives. This dedication of the guardsmen demonstrates how the values of loyalty, reliability, professionalism and solidarity continue to shape the Swiss Guard, both today and into the future.
The Abuse Many Refuse to See: Why Are Two Out of Three Victims Not Believed?
ZENIT Staff
From Italy, the organization coordinating services against child maltreatment and abuse (CISMAI) highlights a critical issue, denouncing the blind spots that still hinder society from addressing solutions to child sexual abuse.
New Film and YouTube series on Dating for Catholics
ZENIT Staff
The Dating Project Documentary Streams FREE on EWTN+ With a New Companion Series on YouTube
The Vatican launches a website for its energy farm, which will make it the first country with 100% green energy
ZENIT Staff
The platform has been designed to provide clear, immediate and well-organized communication, guiding visitors in discovering the Foundation’s mission and the environmental transition project that lies at the heart of its energy work.
Pope Francis’s Personal Diary Becomes a Book in Five Languages: What You Need to Know
ZENIT Staff
On November 24, 2026, a simultaneous publication in five languages with distribution in 94 countries will take place. «Pope Francis’s Personal Diary» presents and provides commentary on the notes Bergoglio made from December 20, 1992, to August 18, 2024.
Leo XIV in Argentina: Here is the website, the official song, the registration page, and the oil painting of the Pope with the Virgin of Luján
Enrique Villegas
The preparations for the November 8–11 apostolic visit are now moving into a more practical phase. The Argentine bishops’ conference has launched the official website for the trip, providing information about the scheduled celebrations, meetings and participation requirements. From October 8, pilgrims and volunteers will be able to register, while journalists and media organizations will receive information about accreditation.
Young religious people are happier, healthier, and more successful: these are the findings of a revealing study published in the U.S.
Jorge Enrique Mújica
The evidence also challenges the familiar idea that religious commitment necessarily works against personal advancement. Forty-six percent of religious young men in the survey have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 29 percent of nominally religious men and 16 percent of secular men
Morning Keys: Leo opens Amoris Laetitia meeting
Here are today’s key Catholic stories on the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, led by the opening this afternoon in Rome of Pope Leo XIV’s weeklong meeting with bishops’ conference presidents and Eastern Church leaders, 10 years after Amoris Laetitia. Also inside: news that Leo will go to Assisi on Oct. 27 for the 40th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s interreligious prayer for peace, the St. Louis archdiocese’s lawsuit over priests’ access to ICE detainees, and Leo’s general audience catechesis on Gaudium et Spes. New at Where Peter Is this morning, Mike Lewis asks whether the Amoris week will finally retire the “Leo is reversing Francis” narrative.
Today’s Mass readings (USCCB): Our Lady of the Rosary · Saint of the day (Vatican News): St. Mark, pope
Churches are finally making the moral case against sports betting
Vanderbilt Divinity School is under receivership. No one seems to know why.
Religion News Service: One of the nation’s most prestigious divinity schools has been placed in receivership, leading to speculation that the school might close or change drastically.
Immigrant who helped set off Delaney Hall hunger strike released from ICE custody
Religion News Service: “I don’t have words,” Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez said in Spanish while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.”
Churches are finally making the moral case against sports betting*
The Atlantic: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the most recent faith community to come out strongly against online gambling.
Jim Bakker, whose globe-spanning PTL ministry fell to scandal and fraud, dies at 86
NBC News: The televangelist served less than five years after being convicted of fraud in 1989.
The ‘God gap’ is narrowing in Texas*
The New York Times: Will Talarico’s religious faith help put him — and his party — over the top?
Tennessee bishops call for end to death penalty
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The motto for this year’s pilgrimage was "Mother, in your embrace we recognize each other as brothers and sisters.” |
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Bishop Michael Olson said he hopes to “further the culture of life” by urging the company to consider whether it’s violating federal law by mailing abortion pills to pro-life states. |
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“Accountability for grave wrongdoing is necessary, but it does not require the taking of another life,” the bishops wrote. |
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A look at this popular devotion and prayer on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. |
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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