(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…
(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 / 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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
Sister Mara Grace Gore (center), the vocations director of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, smiles alongside her fellow sisters. Four Catholic religious sisters share how they received their names — and what…