Paul Ratje/AFP A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Helicopter is pictured patrolling the border at Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on July 22, 2021, with a statue of Christ just visible atop…
Sgt. Justin A. MoellerA U.S. soldier with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division provides security during a battle drill at Forward Operating Base Lightning in Paktia province, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2013. Responding to…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV presided Thursday over the funeral rites for Cardinal Camillo Ruini, remembering him as a servant of the Church who “knew how to guide the people of God.” The funeral…
Pope Leo XIV has emphasized the value of the Eastern Catholic Churches, warning that failing to understand them is harmful to the Church. In a private audience with members of the Reunion of Aid Agencies…
The Dáil, Ireland’s parliament, on Wednesday voted in favor of removing the mandatory three-day waiting period for abortions by 86 votes to 70, with no abstentions. The bill from Sinn Féin would remove the current…
(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…
(ZENIT News / Rome, 06.17.2026).- For much of the past quarter-century, the trajectory of American public opinion on LGBTQ issues appeared remarkably consistent. Support for same-sex marriage rose steadily, cultural acceptance broadened, and opposition seemed…
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,…
Cardinal Camillo Ruini is dead at 95. A giant of the Church in Italy at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first, Ruini was, perhaps, the last truly great Italian…
(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…