Dominican Superior General Establishes a Study Group on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies
ZENIT Staff
The Master of the Order has appointed eight friars to a Study Group on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies to examine their implications for Dominican life, preaching and formation, with human dignity and the common good guiding its work.
What is the Church’s mission in the contemporary world? Pope Leo XIV answers
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Pope’s General Audience, October 7, 2026, on the Church’s Mission in the Contemporary World
What kind of Church do people encounter when they are at their most vulnerable? Leo XIV opens the conference on Amoris Laetitia by placing vulnerability at the center
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Remarks by the Pope at the beginning of the meeting with the leaders of the Eastern Churches and the presidents of the episcopal conferences, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of “Amoris laetitia”
Can Europe Erase a Baptism? A Legal Battle Puts Church Autonomy to the Test
Joachin Meisner Hertz
The case, known as Bisdom Gent, is now before the Court of Justice of the European Union. It follows an opinion issued on October 1 by Advocate General Laila Medina, who concluded that European data-protection law can, in principle, give a baptized person the right to have personal information removed from a baptismal register when the church cannot demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for retaining it.
USA: Teen wrestler takes her Title IX fight to SCOTUS following sexual assault by male opponent
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A male wrestler sexually assaulted teenage female wrestler Kallie Keeler in December 2025 during a high school girls’ wrestling tournament, an event sponsored by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. Keeler and her mother are suing state officials after those officials directed Keeler to take the mat without telling anyone that she was about to wrestle a male and after the officials waited 53 days to report the sexual assault to law enforcement, in violation of a mandatory 48-hour reporting law.
Jerusalem: Mamilla Pool and Cemetery at Risk
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The restoration project for the Mamilla Pool, located west of Jerusalem’s Old City, is reigniting controversy; it risks obliterating the winter pool and the graves of the ancient Islamic cemetery, sites already eroded over the decades by parks, roads, parking lots, and a museum.
Vatican Commission on Combating Abuse Examines Protection Within Religious Communities and Makes Further Progress
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The Commission’s members approved by referendum the Instrumentum laboris for the Fourth Annual Report, due for publication in 2027 and emphasised that the meaningful participation of victims and survivors in the Annual Report process remains essential to understanding institutional responses to abuse and shaping policies capable of preventing its recurrence.
On De-Radicalizing Aspects of Education and on the Responsibility to Safeguard Revelation and the Memory of the Heart: Leo XIV to the Pontifical Universities
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Homily by the Holy Father at the Holy Mass marking the opening of the academic year at the Pontifical Universities
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