envisages a process of dialogue in selecting bishops though Pope Francis has said he has the final word. The Vatican signed it in 2018 in hopes it would help unite China’s Catholics, who for ...

Saying “we must walk patiently in China,” Pope Francis views continued dialogue with Beijing as the guiding principle in his ...

And since its announcement in September 2018, the secret Vatican-China agreement has further ... the excommunication of seven illegitimate bishops of the state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic ...

Critics have faulted Francis for not protesting assaults on the Church in China and Nicaragua. But is the criticism ...

Pope Francis, left, hands to Cardinal Marc Ouellet his speech after addressing the faithful on the occasion of the opening of a 3-day Symposium on Vocations in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican ...

(Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.) Listen to this story: ROME – In the latest twist in an ongoing showdown between the Vatican and the German bishops, three top Vatican officials have seemingly ...

Pope Francis has named an American-born missionary in Peru to take over the Vatican’s powerful bishops’ office from the retiring Canadian who has recently been accused of sexual misconduct ...

China has stepped up diplomatic pressure on countries to get them to cut ties with Taiwan. The Vatican is one of only 14 states — and the only one in Europe — that have maintained formal ties ...

Ouellet has recently been accused of sexual assualt Author of the article: Marc Ouellet, the Quebec cardinal who oversaw the Vatican’s powerful bishops’ office and has been recently accused of ...

Pope Francis on Monday named an American as the next prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops to succeed Cardinal Marc Ouellet. Bishop Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Vatican office ...

Pope Francis on Monday named an American-born missionary in Peru, Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, to take over the Vatican’s powerful bishops’ office from the retiring Canadian who has recently ...

Pope Francis on Monday named an American-born missionary in Peru, Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, to take over the Vatican's ...