The United States' chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his "disappointment" in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops in the country. Nury A ...

Officials reportedly kidnapped two bishops connected to Rome for the ... the only independent bishop is the one named by the Vatican. China argues against the interference of the Vatican as ...

Pope Francis says continued dialogue with Chinese authorities is a guiding principle in his efforts to safeguard his flock ...

The challenges now facing the Catholic Church in China and Nicaragua have significant similarities to the problems that the ...

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 ...

moving beyond the harder line approach of his predecessor to sign an agreement in 2018 on the appointment of bishops in China. At the same time, the Vatican has maintained diplomatic relations ...

A Catholic cleric has attacked Pope Francis’s deal with China to jointly appoint Chinese bishops, warning ... also compares the Vatican’s silence over Beijing’s crushing of human rights ...

VATICAN CITY _ The recent consecration of bishops in China without the approval of Pope Benedict XVI is prompting the Vatican to reevaluate its push to restore diplomatic relations with Beijing.

The original agreement recognized the status of seven state-appointed bishops who hadn't been approved by the Vatican, smoothing over relations between the two.

Prior to that, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been at the levers of power of the institution for some five decades, as a noted theologian and then the longtime head of the Vatican's ...

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