Belgian bishop who announced the ordination of married men for 2028

Argentina is expecting one of the largest religious gatherings in connection with the Pope’s visit: here are the details

ZENIT Staff

The Vatican released the full itinerary on September 21, alongside the mottoes and official logos for each national leg. The journey, announced on August 5 following invitations from the three countries’ civil and ecclesiastical authorities, will begin in Montevideo and conclude in Lima

AI Governance: Trump, China, and the Vatican’s Role

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Leo XIV has made the ethical governance of AI a central concern of his pontificate

The Art of Caring for the Pope’s Liturgy: How the Vestments for Pope Leo XIV’s Masses in France Were Made

Anne Van Merris

Companies, artisans, social integration workshops, religious communities, and numerous volunteers mobilized across various regions of France to create albs, stoles, altar cloths, crosses, and various liturgical ornaments and furnishings.

The Moving Prayer Leo XIV Will Recite Before Our Lady of Lourdes – Translated into English

ZENIT Staff

The prayer will take place on the evening of Saturday, September 26.

Here Are the Church’s Figures the Pope Will Find in France: The Vatican Publishes Statistics Revealing Trends from 1980 to 2026

Anne Van Merris

these figures illustrate the evolution of the Church in the country, which welcomed Saint John Paul II in 1980 and is now receiving Pope Leo XIV

What is the value of human activity in the world? Pope Leo XIV answers

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Pope’s General Audience, September 23, 2026, on the meaning of human activity in the universe

Belgian bishop who announced the ordination of married men for 2028 says he is already preparing some candidates

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Bonny’s initiative is driven, he says, by a shortage of local clergy that is increasingly affecting the Church’s ability to serve communities beyond parish life. Antwerp has fewer than 70 priests under the age of 70, according to figures cited by the bishop, and around two-thirds of them come from abroad

Director of the Recollectio-Haus, a center founded by the monk Anselm Grün: We no longer accept abusers

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She told katholisch.de that excluding abusers is necessary to protect other participants, some of whom may themselves be survivors and could be retraumatized by sharing a therapeutic setting with a perpetrator. The centre’s purpose, she stressed, is support and recovery—not treatment for people who have committed sexual abuse

Priests Carry Names of Children Killed in Gaza and Lebanon Through Rome, Urging a Return to Diplomacy

Valentina di Giorgio

The shroud, they said, commemorated children killed in the months after ceasefires were announced in Gaza and Lebanon. The network reported that more than 300 children had died in Gaza since October 2025 and around 150 in Lebanon over the previous five months.

Sex education in Catholic schools sparks a dispute between parents and the bishop of Hamburg, with the Vatican looking on

Joachin Meisner Hertz

The latest controversy concerns an internal email dated August 28, 2026, from the archdiocese’s vicar general, Father Sascha-Philipp Geißler. He characterized the parents’ campaign as an attempt to create uncertainty and discord in school communities, and advised employees not to respond to the network’s messages or enter into debate