Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. | Credit: Vatican Media
Jan 16, 2026 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin arrived in Kuwait on Thursday for a visit of both ecclesial and diplomatic significanc… […]
The Becket Fund releases its annual Religious Freedom Index (RFI) on Jan. 16, 2026, exploring American attitudes on the First Amendment. | Credit: Leigh Prather/Shutterstock
Jan 16, 2026 / 11:54 am (CNA).
Annual research by the Becket Fund … […]
The French Senate, the upper house of the French Parliament. | Credit: Jacques Paquier (CC BY 2.0)
Jan 16, 2026 / 11:00 am (CNA).
French Catholic bishops have issued a public statement urging lawmakers to reject a proposed law that would le… […]
Monsignor Anthony J. Figueiredo and Bishop Mylo Vergara of Pasig, Philippines, bless the facility of the 2022 “Economy of Fraternity” prize recipient, the Ecocharcoal Briquettes Project in the Diocese of Pasig, on Dec. 3, 2025. | Courtesy of Mon… […]
Cardinal Aguiar and his auxiliary bishop, Francisco Javier Acero Pérez, OAR, met with Pope Leo on Jan. 14, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media
Jan 16, 2026 / 06:00 am (CNA).
The primatial archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, has invite… […]
December 12, 2021, was the day my younger brother’s scan revealed the hard news that the pain in his left hip—which he jokingly called “a giant tumor”—was indeed precisely that. For months, he had attributed […]
What is man? Carl Trueman argues that this is the most pressing question we face today. Paul Kingsnorth seems to agree; in his recently published book, Against the Machine, Kingsnorth asserts that “We have forgotten who we are, […]
Credit: Carl DMaster/Shutterstock
Jan 15, 2026 / 17:10 pm (CNA).
As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues its review of the abortion pill mifepristone, Republican lawmakers are repeating calls for stronger federal regulations of the … […]
The pope closed the large bronze doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2025, when the Jubilee of Hope concluded. | Credit: Vatican Media
Jan 15, 2026 / 17:42 pm (CNA).
With the final sealing on Jan. 16 of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilic… […]
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during an end-of-year press conference in the State Department Press Briefing Room in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 19, 2025. | Credit: Mandel NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Jan 15, 2026 / 15:57 pm (CNA).
Secre… […]
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