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Nearly a Billion Listens Later, a Priest, a Microphone, and a Bible That Keeps Speaking
Posted on 01/8/2026 20:28 PM (ZENIT – English)
Bible in a Year remains available across all major podcast platforms, maintaining the accessibility that helped drive its early growth
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Cardinals will return to Rome for a new Consistory in June 2026 requested by Pope Leo XIV
Posted on 01/8/2026 20:26 PM (ZENIT – English)
The January gathering brought together 170 cardinals, both electors and non-electors, marking the first such assembly of Leo XIV’s pontificate. The June meeting, he explained, will not be an isolated event
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“Pray with the Pope”: A renewed invitation to pray for his monthly prayer intentions
Posted on 01/8/2026 20:19 PM (ZENIT – English)
An invitation from the Holy Father to pray for the challenges facing humanity
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“It is not the Church that attracts, but Christ”: Pope Leo XIV’s first speech (translated into English) to a consistory of cardinals
Posted on 01/8/2026 20:15 PM (ZENIT – English)
Improvised remarks by the Holy Father at the conclusion of the first session of the Extraordinary Consistory
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León XIV to cardinals: “We gather not to promote personal or group “agendas”
Posted on 01/8/2026 20:11 PM (ZENIT – English)
Homily by Pope Leo XIV on the second day of the extraordinary consistory at the Vatican
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Pope Leo XIV Reflects on Vatican Council II and Its Documents Thus Initiating a New Series of Catecheses
Posted on 01/7/2026 18:54 PM (ZENIT – English)
The Pope’s General Audience on January 7, 2026 was an introduction to a new series of catecheses on Vatican Council II and its Documents
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“Peter (The Pope) must not be unaccompanied”: Cardinal Radcliffe’s complete meditation in English to the cardinals in the Consistory
Posted on 01/7/2026 18:52 PM (ZENIT – English)
Cardinal Radcliffe's complete meditation in English to the cardinals in the Consistory
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Liturgy and the Roman Curia are left out as topics for Leo XIV’s first consistory: this was discussed
Posted on 01/7/2026 18:49 PM (ZENIT – English)
Time constraints required the assembly to select only two subjects from a list of four. Alongside the two chosen themes were liturgy and the apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium, which reformed the Roman Curia and its service to local Churches
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Austria Opens a New Path to the Priesthood for Midlife Professionals
Posted on 01/7/2026 18:46 PM (ZENIT – English)
The conference has stressed that the initiative aligns fully with Vatican norms, particularly those outlined in the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis, the foundational document governing priestly formation worldwide
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U.S. Congressional Report Maps a Broadening Repression in China
Posted on 01/7/2026 18:43 PM (ZENIT – English)
The document released by the U.S. Congressional‑Executive Commission on China (quoting several “Bitter Winter” articles) insists on religious persecution.
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