Thursday, January 01, 2026

Pope Leo: Jubilee Year ‘a powerful sign of a new world’ - Vatican News

 Pope Leo: Jubilee Year ‘a powerful sign of a new world’ - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-12/pope-leo-jubilee-year-powerful-sign-new-world-te-deum.html

Friday, December 26, 2025

How do music and sound generate experiences of wonder? Stanford researchers launch investigation into sound and transcendence - ZENIT - English

How do music and sound generate experiences of wonder? Stanford researchers launch investigation into sound and transcendence - ZENIT - English: At the heart of the project lies a provocative hypothesis. Many sacred sites, the researchers argue, produce acoustic effects that disrupt ordinary sensory expectations. Echoes blur spatial boundaries, sound sources become difficult to locate, distances seem to stretch or collapse. What the eyes perceive as finite and material, the ears experience as expansive and elusive

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Pope Leo calls for an unarmed peace amid the threat of war -

 Pope Leo calls for an unarmed peace amid the threat of war - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-12/pope-peace-day-message-leo-unarmed-disarmed.html

Monday, September 01, 2025

Patriarch of Constantinople makes setting a common date for Easter between Orthodox and Catholics conditional on a Council - ZENIT - English

Patriarch of Constantinople makes setting a common date for Easter between Orthodox and Catholics conditional on a Council - ZENIT - English: The Patriarch insisted that such dissonance cannot be resolved by committees or courtesy alone. “For the Orthodox, what was fixed by a council can only be altered by another council,” he said. Yet he also stressed that division must not deepen: “Our credibility as Christians depends on giving testimony to the Resurrection on the same day.”

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Pope at Mass: Never believe that evil can prevail, even amid injustices - Vatican News

 Pope at Mass: Never believe that evil can prevail, even amid injustices - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-07/pope-leo-xiv-mass-castel-gandolfo-carabinieri-police-poor-clares.html