The Surprising Results of the Excavations and Restoration of the Holy Sepulcher

Nuns and the Archdiocese of Chicago Win First Battle Against the Euthanasia Law Imposed by the Democratic Party in Illinois

ZENIT Staff

The September 11 order by U.S. District Judge Franklin U. Valderrama does not suspend the law throughout Illinois. It applies specifically to the Catholic parties who challenged it: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, and the Little Sisters of the Poor

Rupnik: Two Responses to Works by the Same “Artist”: France Covers Up the Mosaics, Brazil Unveils Them with Fireworks

ZENIT Staff

The contrasting decisions at two of Catholicism’s great Marian shrines have brought an unresolved question inside the Church into unusually sharp focus: how should sacred art be treated when its creator is accused of serious abuse?

Pope Leo XIV grants Mexico a Jubilee Year thanks to Our Lady of Guadalupe: here are the reasons, dates, and what you need to know

ZENIT Staff

Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop Primate of Mexico, announced the decision, describing it as a time of grace for the faithful. The concession was made through the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican institution responsible, among other matters, for granting and regulating indulgences.

Great Britain Rejects Assisted Suicide in a Close Vote

Elizabeth Owens

The 16-vote defeat on September 11 was striking not only because the proposal failed, but because of how dramatically the political landscape had shifted

«Entrepreneurial Nuns»: The Inspiring Creativity of Women of God That Has Changed Hundreds of Lives for the Better

Alma Recinas

Can entrepreneurship become a new form of evangelization?

UK: Catholic Prime Minister Pushes for Reform of a Law That Discriminated Against Catholic and Jewish Politicians

ZENIT Staff

Under the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829, a Catholic is prohibited from advising the sovereign, directly or indirectly, on appointments to the Church of England or Church of Scotland. A similar restriction on Jewish people was retained in the Jews Relief Act of 1858.

The Vatican Will Participate in the Taekwondo World Championships for the First Time: Here Is the Representative and the Specific Discipline

ZENIT Staff

The partnership between Athletica Vaticana and the Italian Taekwondo Federation has been developing for several years. Athletica Vaticana became a member of the world federation in 2021, and the relationship took on an especially visible character in June, when the international taekwondo community was received by Leo XIV in St Peter’s Square.

U.S.: The country with the most Vatican permits to celebrate the traditional Mass, according to a document from the Dicastery for Divine Worship

ZENIT Staff

Of the 34 decrees recorded for 2025, 29 renewed existing permissions for a further two years. In several cases, a single decree covered more than one parish within the same diocese. The remaining authorizations concerned new or otherwise distinct permissions, although the published index does not provide a detailed explanation of every case.

The Surprising Results of the Excavations and Restoration of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem

ZENIT Staff

The first research results are collected in the volume «Hagia Polis Project. Excavations at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Volume I. Project and Methodology». A project in which collaboration between Communities and researchers becomes a valuable instrument of knowledge but also a symbol of a concrete form of guardianship of the Holy Place for the benefit of the faithful

Andorra and Liechtenstein: two European microstates facing the same problem—abortion while remaining Catholic

Joachin Meisner Hertz

The two cases share an unusual feature: both countries have Catholic majorities and constitutional arrangements in which the Church or a Catholic head of state retains an institutional role. Yet they illustrate two very different ways in which questions of abortion, political authority and conscience can collide.