Former Director of Oxford Seminary Converts to Catholicism

Surprising study shows birth projections for 2026: only 8 out of every 100 babies will be born on three continents combined

Tim Daniels

If a culture does not reproduce itself biologically, can it expect to endure institutionally? Modernity has achieved unprecedented material progress, yet its most advanced societies are those least inclined to bring forth new life

U.S. Supreme Court Halts California’s Secrecy Policy on Student Gender Transitions

Tim Daniels

Public opinion appears to favor parental involvement. According to the 2025 Religious Freedom Index published by Becket, approximately 73 percent of Americans believe parents are the primary educators of their children. That cultural backdrop likely frames how this case will be received across the country.

Luxembourg approves the killing of babies in the womb as a constitutional right

Joachin Meisner Hertz

The deeper question is not only legal but anthropological. Constitutional language reflects a society’s understanding of human dignity and the role of the state in safeguarding — or limiting — individual autonomy

Settlers exploit war in Iran to commit new acts of violence in the West Bank

ZENIT Staff

Two Palestinian brothers were shot dead in a raid in Qaryut, south of Nablus. New attacks and assaults also in the Christian village of Taybeh. Fr Bashar: not isolated incidents, but a ‘growing pattern of violence’ that raises “concerns”. Barriers and isolation, the West Bank increasingly similar to the Strip, victim of ‘state violence’.

“Quo Vadis, Humanitas?”: Vatican Theologians Confront AI, Transhumanism and the Future of the Human Person

Jorge Enrique Mújica

“Quo vadis, humanitas?” does not provide technical blueprints for regulating AI or biotechnology. Instead, it reasserts an anthropological principle: the future of humanity will not be decided solely in laboratories, but in our capacity to inhabit present tensions without denying limits or forgetting transcendence

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Bills Passed in the National Assembly: The Church in France Reacts

ZENIT Staff

The French Bishops reaffirmed their profound opposition and spoke of an irreversible break with the ethical foundations of the society. They announced that they would continue to denounce this bill because «deliberately taking a life cannot constitute human progress.»

This is how Catholicism declined in Latin America during Pope Francis’ pontificate

Enrique Villegas

The pastoral challenge facing the Catholic Church in Latin America is therefore not the disappearance of faith, but the erosion of the institutional bonds that once sustained it.

Global Anglican Communion to be led by a conciliar structure as opposed to the Anglican Church of England

Elizabeth Owens

If that shift continues, historians may eventually look back on the Abuja meeting not simply as another conference in an ongoing dispute, but as the moment when global Anglicanism began reorganizing itself around a new axis of leadership—one increasingly shaped by the churches of the Global South

Questions about liturgy: Ash Wednesday, liturgy, and children

ZENIT Staff

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

Former Director of Oxford Seminary Converts to Catholicism

Dante Alba, LC

Although Robin Ward was educated in what he described as a «Low Church» form of Anglicanism, characterized by the use of the Book of Common Prayer, austere liturgy, and a Protestant approach to the sacraments, his experience at Oxford and his encounter with the Anglo-Catholic tradition sparked in him a deeper search for t