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Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 9, 2026. Large numbers of Iranians from diverse social and religious backgrounds are taking part in the ongoing, widespread protests, including Christian citizens. ... read more

By Nicolás de Cárdenas Jan 20, 2026 / 17:07 pm Following a tragic train accident that occurred on Sunday evening, Jan. 18, in the Spanish town of Adamuz in the Córdoba province, the Catholic Church is providing pastoral care for those affected. In addition to the help offered immediately ... read more

The FSSP leaders called the meeting “an opportunity to present to the Holy Father in greater detail the foundation and history of the fraternity.” Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter Superior General Father John Berg (right) is accompanied to a Jan. 19, 2026, audience with Pope Leo XIV by Father Josef Bisig (center), a co-founder ... read more

Pope Leo XIV and leaders of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), a community dedicated to the traditional Roman rite, held a “cordial half-hour meeting” on Monday, Jan. 19, at the apostolic palace.The priestly fraternity said in a Jan. 20 statement that the Holy Father received in private audience its superior general, Minneapolis-born Father ... read more

Juan Barreto A man takes a picture of portraits of political prisoners during a demonstration by relatives at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas on Jan. 13. While some see a turning point in Nicolás Maduro’s arrest, Catholic Venezuelans in the U.S. warn that instability and persecution at home have yet to end. ... read more

Daniel Ibáñez A banner in St. Peter’s Square bears the image of St. Bartolo Longo. COMMENTARY: Freed from a life of occult practice, Bartolo Longo became a tireless apostle of the Rosary, founding the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii and offering enduring testimony to God’s transforming grace. ... read more

Former atheist Leah Sargeant told Catholic women that our embodied, sexed nature is ordered for salvation, rejecting cultural lies of interchangeability between men and women and radical autonomy. Leah Sargeant delivers the final keynote at the conference titled “The Beauty of Truth: Navigating Society Today as a Catholic Woman” at the University of St. ... read more

By Amira Abuzeid Jan 20, 2026 / 16:07 pm “We have the good news that our culture needs to hear: that men and women are ordered to the good and made for amity for each other. Our embodied, sexed nature has been ordered for our salvation.” So said Leah ... read more

March for Life March for Life 2024. The first March for Life was on Jan. 22, 1974, in Washington, D.C. ... read more

Vatican Media Cardinals meet with Pope Leo XIV in the third session of the consistory on Jan. 8, 2025, at the Vatican. In the statement, they urged a U.S. foreign policy that 'respects and advances the right to human life, religious liberty, and the enhancement of human dignity throughout the world, especially through ... read more

Tasos Katopodis With Speaker of the House Mike Johnson by his side, President Donald Trump speaks to the press following a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Trump secured his electoral victory in 2024 with the help of Catholics, who supported him by a double-digit margin. ... read more

It has been 100 years since the beginning of the Cristero War, an armed, popular uprising against religious persecution by the federal government in Mexico that left a legacy of martyrs. Blessed Father Miguel Agustín Pro, a martyr during the Cristero War in Mexico, with his arms outstretched in the form of a cross ... read more

The Cristero War in Mexico, also known as the “Cristiada,” was not only an armed conflict but also a head-on clash between a state seeking forced secularization and a society that refused to renounce its Catholic identity. This bloody episode left a legacy of martyrs and a historical wound that has marked the complex relationship ... read more

Large numbers of Iranians from diverse social and religious backgrounds are taking part in the ongoing, widespread protests, including Christian citizens. Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December 2025, ... read more

The ongoing protests in Iran are considered the largest in years, both in duration and geographic spread. Since erupting on Dec. 28, 2025, demonstrations have continued without interruption, expanding across the country’s north, south, east, and west. Large numbers of Iranians from diverse social and religious backgrounds have taken part, including Christian citizens.Human rights and ... read more