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Jan 12, 2026 / 13:29 pm In a case with implications for religious freedom, institutional autonomy, and health care access across Canada, a British Columbia Supreme Court trial starting Jan. 12 will consider whether faith-based [...]

Jan 12, 2026 / 11:45 am Former United States Attorney General Bill Barr said military action to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was “legitimate under U.S. law.” On Jan. 3 President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces [...]

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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

I was heartened to read in Pope Leo XIV’s General Audience of January 7th that he will begin a cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council. And how providential it is that [...]