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Saturday, May 30, 2026
Nicaraguan advocate laments ‘silence’ about Catholic persecution
Friday, May 29, 2026
The lesson Southern Jews knew first
Abortion, Israel and homosexuality top clergy’s political topics, survey finds
Religion News
Service: What clergypersons say about such topics varies depending on
their viewpoint and, sometimes, their religious affiliation, the Pew
Research Center found.
Pew Research Center: What political issues do Americans hear about in church?
Adam Hamilton disputes sex abuse cover-up allegation in Kansas U.S. Senate race
The (Kansas City)
Star: While Patrick Schmidt’s allegations target Hamilton, a series of
court records reviewed by The Star paint a more complex picture.
The lesson Southern Jews knew first
Religion News
Service: That old fear of being ‘too Jewish’ is alive and well. But we
can fight it, author Nick Lemann says in a conversation about his new
book about his family, “Returning: A Search for Home Across Three
Centuries.”
Gen Z men are more religious online
Mashable: Gen Z male
creators on TikTok and YouTube are posting Bible study routines, church
outfit checks, and clips of themselves deleting dating apps and
returning to God.
When employees are drowning in change
MIT Management Review: Most leaders focus on managing change. The ones getting results focus on the people living through it.
U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection Releases Annual Report
Israel: big moves for the post-7 October elections
ZENIT Staff
The religious parties want to move up the vote to 15 September before Yom Kippur (and distance themselves from Netanyahu). The Bennett-Lapid alliance is failing in the polls, giving former General Eisenkot a chance to emerge as the top opposition leader. But no one seems to have the numbers to form a majority without the support Arab parties that Jewish parties reportedly want to keep at bay.
Landmark report to reveal the scale and potential of UK Catholic giving
ZENIT Staff
Commissioned by Catholics in Fundraising (CiF), and prepared by Astarita Aldrich Ward, the report sets out, for the first time, an evidence-based picture of the Catholic charitable and philanthropic landscape across the country.
The Argentine government has announced that Pope Leo XIV will visit the country: here’s everything we know
Enrique Villegas
Argentine President Javier Milei stated on May 26 that, “unless a tragedy occurs,” it is “highly probable” that the Pope will visit the country later this year. He credited the progress largely to the efforts of Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno, describing the negotiations as having successfully aligned the necessary positions.
Pope Leo XIV receives Spain’s atheist president amid a political crisis in the country he is about to visit
Valentina di Giorgio
The approximately 45-minute private audience between Sánchez and the Pope unfolded against a turbulent domestic backdrop. On the same day, Spanish political debate was dominated by developments involving investigations linked to the Socialist Party and the legal scrutiny surrounding former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Pope Leo XIV calls the liturgy the “driving force of evangelization” and urges priests to respect liturgical texts and norms
ZENIT Staff
The Pope’s General Audience, May 27, 2026, on Tradition and Reform in the Liturgy
U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection Releases Annual Report
ZENIT Staff
This is the twenty-third such report since 2002 when the U.S. bishops established and adopted the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, a comprehensive framework of procedures to address allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy and establish protocols to protect children and young people.
The Priority of the Gospel, Synodality According to Leo XIV, and the Types of Courage Needed Today in the Church
ZENIT Staff
Pope’s Address to the Italian Bishops
Healing the Healer: Pope Leo XIV intervenes at Padre Pio of Pietrelcina’s hospital. Why?
Valentina di Giorgio
On May 27, Pope Leo XIV signed a papal chirograph establishing a special commission with extraordinary powers to stabilize and relaunch Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, the renowned Catholic hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo founded by Padre Pio in the 1950s
Italian bishop announces plan to evangelize Muslims in his diocese: offering Christ, not just material aid
Covadonga Asturias
The origin of the initiative come from an ordinary Caritas meeting. A lay volunteer reportedly asked a simple but uncomfortable question: why does the Church dedicate so much energy to material support while failing to offer migrants “the most precious thing we possess — faith and the Gospel”?
The traditional Chartres pilgrimage breaks records. Here are the surprising figures that challenge the European narrative of religious decline
Covadonga Asturias
What most surprised was not merely the size of the crowd — larger even than last year’s 19,000 pilgrims — but its demographic profile. According to an internal study conducted among 4,610 participants, the average age of the pilgrims was only 22 years old. By comparison, the average age of practicing Catholics in France today is approximately 57.
Some Reflections on the Life of the Church, Looking Ahead to the Coming Years (by Pope Leo XIV)
ZENIT Staff
The Pope’s Address to the Members of the Dicastery for Evangelization
Mexican Supreme Court seeks to legalize abortion across the nation
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Reverence for motherhood begins with charity
Reverence for motherhood begins with charity
By Susan Ciancio on May 29, 2026 04:00 amOur Blessed Mother constantly looks out for us, even when we aren’t thinking about her. I was reminded of this fact recently when I chanced upon Mary under the title of Our Lady of Charity. [...]
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A profound reflection on suffering and moving account of conversion
By Casey Chalk on May 28, 2026 04:00 pmMy father was a physical therapist. His funeral was well attended, with several hundred people, including a significant percentage of whom I had never met, his patients over thirty-five years practicing in our native northern [...]
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Leo XIV: Don’t water down Christianity
By Victoria Cardiel on May 28, 2026 10:12 amThe pontiff said the Church must respond to religious indifference not by softening the Gospel’s demands but by offering credible witness to Christ. [...]
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Catholic Colorado: The Semiquincentennial in the Centennial State
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on May 28, 2026 04:00 amColorado celebrates its own 150th anniversary this year, as the rest of the country marks 250 years since the founding of the United States. The two milestones bear an interesting connection. In the very year [...]
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Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch
By Larry Chapp on May 27, 2026 11:03 pmPope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is a pointed and prophetic gut punch. Don’t be fooled by the usual “ecclesial-speak” argot of the text. When read carefully and closely, what emerges is a blunt, and even [...]
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The peace we can make
By George Weigel on May 27, 2026 04:19 amRepetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 27, 2026
By CWR Staff on May 27, 2026 03:00 amThe Wine Is Jesus’ Blood (Catholic Answers): Christ’s blood at the Last Supper could still be present in the chalice even if it didn’t yet have the status of being the ‘blood of the covenant,’ [...]
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Magnifica Humanitas: The Human Person Between Glory and Fragility
By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on May 26, 2026 05:54 pmThere are many newsworthy dimensions to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. If you’ve followed the Holy Father’s homilies, catecheses, and public addresses, the broad direction of the document is not surprising. Even so, [...]
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The choice: Rebuild the tower of Babel or rebuild the walls of Jerusalem
By Dale Ahlquist on May 26, 2026 05:01 pmThe first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (“On Safeguarding The Human Person In The Time Of Artificial Intelligence”) should of course be of interest to everyone. But it is of special interest to [...]
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Toward an “ecology of communication” in Magnifica Humanitas
By Kenneth Craycraft on May 26, 2026 01:16 pmInitial reactions to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, are necessarily brief, and most have tried to focus on one or two particular aspects of the encyclical. While it is helpful to consider a general [...]
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After the Spike ranges from frustrating and flawed to commendable and valuable
By Sandra Miesel on May 25, 2026 04:00 pmAfter the Spike is a frustrating book. It sounds the alarm on a real contemporary problem—the worldwide decline in birthrates that may be sending whole societies, even humanity itself, into a demographic death spiral. The [...]
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Pope Leo unveils his encyclical: AI has ‘even greater consequences’ than Industrial Revolution
By Victoria Cardiel on May 25, 2026 09:52 amThe pope thanked Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah for his presence at the presentation: “What a great sign of hope it is that with our differences we can listen to one another.” [...]
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Magnifica Humanitas: Pope invokes justice to combat ‘anti-human vision’ in AI
By Hannah Brockhaus on May 25, 2026 04:30 amPublished Monday, the pope’s new encyclical warns of a “culture of power” fueled by the digital revolution and artificial intelligence. [...]
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Men such as these: A Memorial Day reflection
By George Weigel on May 25, 2026 04:00 amIt was the Psalms, the Hebrew prophets, and the Gospels that inspired in these men a life-sustaining hope. [..]
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The Virgin Mary’s Message to Nigeria
By Muji Kaiser on May 24, 2026 03:00 pmThe persecution of Christians currently taking place in Nigeria was foretold by the Blessed Virgin Mary in a church-approved apparition that many have never heard of. In 1992, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young [...]
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Pentecost and the priesthood
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on May 24, 2026 08:00 amEditor’s note: The following homily was preached on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. Wind, fire, thunder, and lightning. The Sacred Scriptures are replete with [...]
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Pentecost, the Church, and the 120 in the Upper Room
By Stephen K. Ray on May 24, 2026 03:00 amPentecost is affectionately referred to as the “birthday of the Church”. There is a clue in the biblical account of the gathering in the Upper Room (Acts 1:12ff) that helps us in better understanding the [...]
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Sex and Catholic Social Teaching
By Helen M. Alvaré on May 23, 2026 02:07 pmAs someone who has long labored in the service of the Catholic Church’s teachings on fraught sexual expression topics, I think I understand Pope Leo XIV’s recent remarks on Catholic sexual morality in response to [...]
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At Pentecost, the Spirit of Truth reversed the Tower of Babel
By Carl E. Olson on May 23, 2026 11:00 amReadings: • Acts 2:1-12 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 “Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, who are everywhere [...]
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On the eternal allure of Rome
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on May 23, 2026 10:48 amAs Peter preached the first sermon on Pentecost, he could hardly have imagined that he was shaping a Catholicism—a new way of life in Christ for all people—that would become Roman. There was nothing Roman [...]
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Czech cardinal reflects on martyrs under communism ahead of priest beatifications
By Tyler Arnold on May 22, 2026 02:13 pmThe two priests were imprisoned and executed by the Czechoslovak communist regime because of its hatred of the Catholic faith, according to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. [...]
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