(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.17.2026).- On Wednesday, June 17, the Holy Father held his traditional general audience in St. Peter’s Square before thousands of pilgrims gathered there. After touring the avenues of the square…
A high-profile online controversy in early June reignited one of bioethics’ most charged debates: the morality of terminating a pregnancy following a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. As the discussion spread across social media platforms,…
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.17.2026).- On the morning of Wednesday, June 17, moments before the general audience, Pope Leo XIV received in audience, in the room adjacent to the Paul VI Hall, several members…
Genya Savilov/AFP Smoke and fire rises from the Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra following a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on June 15, 2026, amid the…
Pope Leo XIV speaks at Palacio de las Cortes in Madrid, Spain, on June 8, 2026, becoming the first Pope in history to address the Spanish Parliament. From Westminster Hall to the U.N., popes have…
Pope Leo XIV feeds fish during the Sept. 5, 2025, inauguration of Borgo Laudato Si’, an ecological village on the papal estate of Castel Gandolfo, 18 miles south of Rome. In a video message to…
Javier RomeroPope Leo XIV talks to reporters outside the papal villa of Castel Gandolfo on May 5, 2026, before returning to Rome after a daylong stay there. In a message to an Italian newspaper, the…
‘No one manifests human personhood and humanity better than Our Lady,’ explains professor Mark Miravalle. Mark Miravalle discusses the Marian dimension of Pope Leo’s encyclical on Catholic social teaching and artificial intelligence.
Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha of Olomouc, Czech Republic, is pictured in an undated portrait. More than six decades after Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha died under communist internment, a Czech court has formally recognized his imprisonment…
The United States and Iran have reached an agreement to end a months-long conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Details of the deal remain few, but Pakistan played a key role in mediation efforts…