A new programme launched by the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference and Catholic University of Zimbabwe seeks to equip teachers with psycho-spiritual counselling skills, reinforcing safeguarding and holistic formation within Catholic education.
By Robert Patterson For much of the modern Catholic world, the Latin Mass evokes incense, lace, and whispered prayers to the rhythm of an ancient tongue. But inside the Vatican, it now represents something more combustible: a proxy war over the soul of the Church, testing whether Pope Leo XIV can keep his early papacy …
By Robert Patterson In a gesture steeped in both symbolism and subtle diplomacy, King Charles III will join Pope Leo XIV for an ecumenical prayer service inside the Sistine Chapel this Thursday — marking the first time since the Protestant Reformation that a reigning British monarch and a pope have prayed together publicly. The prayer, …
By Robert Patterson In a week when tech leaders gathered to tout artificial intelligence as the future of progress, Pope Leo XIV chose a different register, one part theology, one part ethics, and unmistakably political. Speaking through a Vatican seminar titled Digital Rerum Novarum: Artificial Intelligence for Peace, Social Justice, and Integral Human Development, the …
By Robert Patterson A day after canonizing seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV pivoted from pageantry to pastoral marching orders, urging pilgrims in Rome to see the new saints not as museum pieces but as catalysts for conversion. Addressing the faithful who had traveled from across the globe, the Pope framed …
By Robert Patterson In a moment that blended ritual grandeur with quiet symbolism, Pope Leo XIV canonized seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, offering a tableau of holiness that spanned continents, pontificates, and centuries of Christian witness. The event, among the signature liturgies of the 2025 Jubilee Year, carried more than the …
For Easter Sunday 2025, Pope Francis was unable to deliver his traditional address in person due to health limitations. The 88-year-old pontiff, who was still recovering from his recent illness, briefly appeared to greet the faithful with a simple “Brothers and Sisters, Happy Easter” before the main message. The pontiff’s annual “Urbi et Orbi” blessing …
The world is in mourning today as news breaks of the passing of Pope Francis, the 266th leader of the Catholic Church and one of the most beloved and transformative figures in modern religious history. He died peacefully in Rome at the age of 88. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Pope Francis was …
