Jesús Colina
Vatican correspondent · Author of Lift Up Your Eyes
Jesús Colina has reported on the Vatican for international media since 1991. He wrote the first book published in the United States and Spain on Leo XIV: Pope Leo XIV (Our Sunday Visitor, May 2025) and Dios nos quiere (Libros Libres, May 2025).
He founded and directed the international news agency ZENIT, served as content director of the Church’s Information Network for Latin America, and created and led the global information network Aleteia.org. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. He holds an honorary doctorate from The Catholic University of America and has received the Servitor Pacis award of the Path to Peace Foundation at the United Nations in New York and the ¡Bravo! award of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference.