A curated record of all media coverage related to Catholic Voices for Israel, including articles, videos and podcasts. Updated as new items appear.
Articles
May 25, 2026 — The Common Sense
Author: Staff Writer
Title: Catholics Rally for Israel
Summary: Introduces CVFI to a general political readership, framing it against the backdrop of Catholic-Jewish tensions and both Pope Francis's and Pope Leo's statements during the Israel-Iran war. Lays out CVFI's Charter language and notes the initiative is led by Lévy and Villeneuve, and that signatories so far are mostly laity and academics, with no senior Church hierarchy yet on board.
June 14, 2026 — Townhall
Author: Jonathan Feldstein
Title: Catholic Theologians Launch Bold Appeal for Israel Amid Rising Anti-Zionism
Summary: The original publication of Jonathan Feldstein's write-up of the Inspiration from Zion podcast interview with Lévy and Villeneuve, later reposted near-verbatim by All Israel News and other pro-Israel/evangelical outlets. Written for a conservative U.S. political audience, it walks through the "For Zion's Sake" appeal's chiastic structure, its rejection of both supersessionism and dispensationalism, and the ~150 signatories so far.
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June 16, 2026 — Jerusalem Post
Author: Paddy Monaghan
Title: For Zion’s sake: An emerging Catholic voice for Israel
Summary: A first-person opinion piece by Paddy Monaghan, an Irish evangelical-Catholic dialogue figure and CVFI signatory, rather than staff reporting — it names specific Catholic influencers (Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Megyn Kelly, Carrie Prejean Boller) and positions the initiative as a direct corrective to what it calls a "hostile" Catholic media climate, reproducing CVFI's seven affirmations and Vatican appeals nearly in full.
June 23, 2026 — EWTN News
Author: Madalaine Elhabbal
Title: Catholic group asks Pope Leo to clarify Church's stance on Israel
Summary: Marks the news hook shifting to the new open letter asking Pope Leo to clarify Israel's theological significance. Brings in outside voices for balance — Simone Rizkallah (Tikvah Fund) affirms the Charter's grounding in settled doctrine while noting its claims about Israel's theological significance go beyond current Church teaching, and cites Cardinal Pizzaballa's observation that Europeans and Jews understand "state" differently; David Moss (Association of Hebrew Catholics) offers unqualified support. As an outlet aimed at mainstream/orthodox Catholics, it treats the question as a live and legitimate internal Church debate rather than settled advocacy.
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June 25, 2026 — Middle East Forum
Author: Jules Gomes
Title: Catholic Zionists Press Pope Leo XIV for Magisterial Declaration on Israel
Summary: Covers the same open letter to Pope Leo but with a sharper polemical edge aimed at a Middle East-watcher audience, foregrounding the charge that Matt Fradd, Candace Owens, and Carrie Prejean Boller are "weaponizing" the Vatican's theological silence, and giving space to Giulio Meotti's argument that the Vatican harbors a long-running "Contra Israel" current. It's also the first to quote CVFI's closing invocation of Pius XII's Holocaust-era silence as a cautionary parallel, and adds outside commentary from ICEJ's David Parsons urging Rome to act.
August 8, 2026 — Jerusalem Post
Author: Jonathan Feldstein
Title: For Zion’s Sake: Why two Catholic theologians are taking a stand for Israel
Summary: A later, more polished feature-length treatment of the same podcast interview material used in the June 15 All Israel News piece, but published almost two months on and framed more as retrospective explainer than breaking news — likely timed to the letter's continued lack of papal response. It adds explicit editorializing (calling Owens a "chief offender") and leans harder into the Pius XII/silence parallel than the earlier evangelical coverage did.
August 10, 2026 — Israel 365 News
Author: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
Title: “For Zion’s Sake”: the Catholic initiative trying to repair the Church’s relationship with Israel
Summary: The most substantive and critical piece in the set, going well beyond recapping the podcast to independently document the Vatican's actual record since October 7 — Pope Francis's "genocide" remarks, Cardinal Parolin's "ongoing massacre" comment, and Vatican officials' avoidance of the term "Israel Defense Forces." It also situates CVFI within the broader Vatican II legacy by drawing a pointed contrast to the SSPX's July 2026 excommunication for rejecting Nostra Aetate, framing CVFI's project as defending, rather than departing from, the Council's authority — the most historically and theologically contextualized piece of the group, consistent with the outlet's own Zionist/biblical orientation.
Videos / Podcasts
May 22, 2026 — Shoulder to Shoulder Podcast (YouTube)
Host & Guests: Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Pastor Doug Reed, Dr. André Villeneuve
Title: "Catholic Scholar Destroys the Anti-Israel Pundits Poisoning the Church"
May 27, 2026 — Jew & Stew Podcast (YouTube)
Host & Guests: Ethan Slyder, Simona Bogode, Dr. André Villeneuve
Title: "Rediscovering Biblical Israel"
June 5, 2026 — GoodVue's Good News, Episode 86
Host & Guests: Lee Kanter, Deacon Keith Fournier
Title: 'For Zion's Sake': A Catholic Appeal Supporting Israel
June 8, 2026 — Genesis 123 Foundation (YouTube)
Host & Guests: Jonathan Feldstein, Fr. Antoine Lévy, Dr. André Villeneuve
Title: For Zion's Sake: A Catholic Appeal in Support of Israel
June 27, 2026 — FrontLine Israel (YouTube)
Host & Guests: Doron Keidar, Dr. André Villeneuve
Title: The Catholic Case for Israel: Covenant, Scripture & The Modern State
