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Dr. John Bergsma, a former Calvinist pastor, tells SEEK 2026 attendees about his path to the Catholic Church. | Credit: Gigi Duncan/EWTN News Jan 2, 2026 / 18:05 pm (CNA). John Bergsma grew up convinced that the Catholic Mass was not merely mistaken but “abominable idolatry.” Speaking Jan. 2 to thousands of college students and…
Pope Leo XIV. | Credit: Vatican Media Jan 2, 2026 / 18:07 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness and compassion to the families of the victims of a fire that broke out in the early hours of Jan. 1 at a bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana in Switzerland. Nearly 300 people…
Dozens of priests help distribute Communion to the 4,500 attendees at Mass on opening night of SEEK 2026 on the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, Jan. 1, 2026, in Forth Worth, Texas. | Credit: Amira Abuzeid/CNA Jan 2, 2026 / 19:25 pm (CNA). A raucous rock concert by a priest, a special video message…
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, speaks to CNA during the SEEK 2026 conference on Jan. 2, 2026. | Credit: Amira Abuzeid/CNA Jan 2, 2026 / 20:00 pm (CNA). Bishop Michael Olson, whose diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, is hosting the SEEK 2026 conference, said he is praying for unity in Christ. Olson said…
Father Mike Schmitz before his show in Vail, Colorado, as part of his Parables Tour. | Credit: Daniel Milchev Jan 2, 2026 / 20:17 pm (CNA). The existence of hell as an option for human beings at the end of life is proof of God’s goodness, according to Father Mike Schmitz. “At the end of…
The tabernacle of Holy Thorn Monastery church in Valladolid, Spain, was forced open and the Blessed Sacrament was stolen. | Credit: Creative Commons/Nicolás Pérez Jan 2, 2026 / 17:00 pm (CNA). The tabernacle of Holy Thorn Monastery church in Valladolid, Spain, was forced open and the Blessed Sacrament was stolen. The Cistercian monastery, which was…
Caracas skyline. | Credit: Olga Berrios, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Jan 1, 2026 / 10:00 am (CNA). 2026 dawned in Venezuela in an atmosphere of ambivalence: sorrows and joys, tensions and consolations, and more questions than certainties. The work of the Catholic Church goes on within the country’s turbulent reality, a task that…
Flowers and tributes line the promenade at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, following the Dec. 14, 2025, terrorist attack in which two gunmen killed 16 people during a Hanukkah celebration. | Credit: DaHuzyBru/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Jan 2, 2026 / 09:33 am (CNA). The president of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference is calling for a…
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in Piazza della Libertà in August 2025. | Credit: Marco Iacobucci Epp/Shutterstock Jan 2, 2026 / 10:40 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV surprised attendees at SEEK 2026 with a videotaped message encouraging young people to seek after fulfillment they are looking for through personal encounter with Christ. “‘What do…
Crowds gather at SEEK 2026 beneath a photo of St. Pier Giorgio Frassati in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. | Credit: Gigi Duncan/EWTN News Jan 2, 2026 / 11:21 am (CNA). In Columbus, Ohio, college students are gathering this week for SEEK 2026, the annual conference hosted by the Catholic student ministry FOCUS….
