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…
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Above: a scene from the film The Mission (Roland Joffé, 1986), which depicts the Jesuit Reductions, highlighting the use of music in the missions. Three hundred years ago, on January 2, 1726, Domenico Zipoli died of tuberculosis. A leading composer of his time, he was the most celebrated musician among the Jesuits and a central…
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…
