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Pope Leo XIV had a meeting this January 12 with Venezuelan political leader and human rights advocate Maria Corina Machado at the Vatican. Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, met with the Pope as her country faces a period of political uncertainty and social fragility. According to her party, the meeting focused Read More…

Pope Leo XIV meets with Venezuela’s Nobel winner

Pope Leo XIV meets Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the Vatican on Jan. 12, 2026. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Jan 12, 2026 / 06:50 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ... [...]

In his first major State of the World address to ambassadors, Pope Leo XIV zoomed in on vocabulary. Yes, he spoke about war, multilateralism, and human rights. But one passage landed with particular force in the age of AI and social media: The Pope warned that “the meaning of words is becoming ever more fluid,” Read More…

Pope Leo XIV takes aim at Orwellian language

Credit: CDC/Debora Cartagena Jan 12, 2026 / 06:00 am (CNA). Catholic medical professionals and ethicists had mixed reactions to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) announcement last week that it has revised the recommended ch... [...]

I had the chance to spend a week in Athens, Greece. Like any traveler nourished by ancient humanities, I climbed the lands of Pericles to see again the wonders that have shaped our imagination: the temples of Ictinus and Callicrates, the marbles of Phidias, the silhouettes of Praxiteles and Lysippus. They still seem to breathe Read More…

Near Athens, a little-known and astonishing mosaic of Mary

On January 9, a quiet but symbolically charged moment unfolded inside the Apostolic Palace. Pope Leo XIV became the first person to experience a new digital reading of the Shroud of Turin, signaling that one of Christianity’s most scrutinized relics has now fully entered the online world. The initiative, called Avvolti, was presented to the Read More…

The Shroud of Turin enters the digital age

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The saints use whatever media they have to spread the Gospel message.  St. Paul wrote letters. St. Maximilian Kolbe used the radio. Venerable Fulton Sheen used television. Their mission continues in our time through ordinary Christians who find creative ways to evangelize through mass media.   A remarkably successful example is Relevant Radio, the third largest Read More…

This radio station is bringing people to God

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