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Pope Leo XIV waves to crowds in St. Peter’s Square after praying the Angelus on Jan. 18, 2026. |Credit: Vatican Media Jan 22, 2026 / 04:45 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV urged Catholic journalists to double down on truth, human connection, and the voices of the vulnerable as artificial intelligence reshapes the communications landscape. In…
Shafiqur Rahman, leader of the largest Islamist politicial party in Bangladesh. | Credit: Delwar Hossain/Wikimedia (CC0) Jan 22, 2026 / 07:00 am (CNA). As Bangladesh heads toward a crucial general election on Feb. 12, the country’s largest Islamist party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has offered an unusual assurance to religious minorities, pledging that it would not impose…
The SECAM delegation, (left to right) Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza, Archbishop José Manuel Imbamba, and Father Rafael Simbine, meets with Pope Leo XIV on Jan. 17, 2026, at the Vatican. | Credit: Vatican Media Jan 22, 2026 / 08:00 am (CNA). The president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and…
Catholic students attend SEEK in January 2026. | Credit: FOCUS Jan 22, 2026 / 09:00 am (CNA). Multiple news reports have said the number of Generation Z Catholics is surging in the United States. ZENIT, an international Catholic news service, and Magisterium AI, a Catholic artificial intelligence agency, cited data from the 2023 Cooperative Election…
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On June 24, 2022, the pro-life movement won. Roe was overturned. Prayers of thanksgiving went up, corks were popped, and the movement finally exhaled. After 50 years, we finally had a victory—the victory we’d been marching for, praying for, and fighting toward for half a century. But while we exhaled, the pro-abortion movement sprang into…
History is filled with stories of deathbed conversions. Some are reasonably well-attested, others disputed, and still others plainly legendary. Constantine delayed baptism until near death after a life marked by political power and violence. Oscar Wilde is often said to have received Catholic rites at the end of his life, a claim treated cautiously by…
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