For many years, knowledgeable voices have been warning the Vatican about the dangers of Sinicization. Catholics pray at a ...

The Vatican’s foreign minister has said that the Vatican-China deal was “not the best ... agreement with Beijing on the appointment of bishops, first signed in 2018. “Obviously, the ...

Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Monday took issue with a recent vote by the German bishops in ...

Vatican officials say Hong ... See and Beijing over the appointment of bishops. That accord was a bid to ease a longstanding divide across mainland China between an underground flock loyal to ...

Researchers on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church are demanding that Pope Francis release the names of bishops investigated under a 2019 policy meant to formalize the church’s handling of abuse ...

When the Vatican struck its controversial provisional agreement with China on bishop appointments in 2018 – a deal which remains in place and is aimed at ending the divide between a so-called ...

Pope Francis marked 10 years as pope Monday, capping a decade of tumult for the Catholic Church that has seen Francis ...

The Pontiff has shown that Catholicism is a dynamic institution, whose leader can face unresolved questions openly.

Leaders of the Catholic Church in Germany must be punished for breaking from the Vatican and approving blessings ... in the country that the German bishops do not have the authority to propagate ...

Appointed a cardinal by Pope John Paul II. April 19: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected pope after four ballots, takes the ...