Leó XIV baseball team pays tribute to the Pope

Appointment of an Alleged Freemason to the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences Sparks Controversy

Valentina di Giorgio

The Holy See announced on August 13 that Leo XIV had appointed Longo, director of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages and a professor of medieval history at Sapienza University of Rome, alongside Francesco Cesareo, emeritus president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Anna Barańska, an associate professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

Peruvian government declares the Pope’s visit a “matter of national interest” and prepares for gatherings of up to 1 million people

Enrique Villegas

The decision, approved by the Council of Ministers on August 12, is more than a protocol measure. It enables the government to coordinate security, logistics, customs procedures, and public services for a trip that is expected to involve between 700,000 and 1 million people nationwide.

Bishop Who Disappeared Under the Nicaraguan Dictatorship Reappears on Camera, but Questions Mount

ZENIT Staff

The video surfaced shortly after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to expand protective measures for Mata and four people associated with him, describing the situation as one of extreme gravity and a potential risk of irreparable harm

Leó  XIV baseball team pays tribute to the Pope: a packed stadium, a nun pitching the ball, the biggest campaign in the team’s history

ZENIT Staff

The attraction was not simply the game between the White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. The real draw was the man whose roots stretch from the Vatican back to Chicago’s working-class South Side. More than 38,000 spectators packed the stadium on August 11, many arriving early to secure one of the now-famous papal-style hats created in honor of the pontiff, born Robert Prevost and long associated with the White Sox

U.S.: Bishop of San Antonio Announces the Laying Off of a Former Priest Found Guilty of Crimes Against the Faith

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Notice of John Mary Foster’s Resignation from the Clergy and Prohibition on Attending “Mission of Divine Mercy” in Canyon Lake

Leo XIV presents the Mass as the primary school of liturgical formation and calls on priests to remain faithful to approved texts

ZENIT Staff

Letter of the Holy Father to H.E. Card. Arthur Roche on the occasion of the Liturgical Conference at Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon, USA

For the first time, a Jewish woman will serve as president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America

ZENIT Staff

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this story is that many of those celebrating Levine’s election insist that it is not primarily about her being Jewish. Colleagues point instead to decades of collaboration, friendship, committee service, editorial work, and intellectual leadership within the association

The Assumption of the Virgin (and What It Has to Do with Us), Explained by Pope Leo XIV

ZENIT Staff

Homily by Pope Leo XIV on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

German Bishop Promotes Gender Ideology in Schools; Parents Speak Out to Rome; Vatican Remains Silent

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Hamburg’s Catholic Schools Face a Test of Parental Trust — and Rome’s Silence

Questions about liturgy: Is the water still blessed when unblessed water is added to it?

Fr. Edward McNamara

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