The recent ordination of a new bishop for Wuhan, China, has drawn attention to the still-unpublished accord between the Holy See and China on the appointment of bishops. The agreement is de facto with ...

Revolution is stirring, and Pope Francis' right-hand man is at the helm. "There is something new in the church," Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga declared on a March visit to the Cincinnati ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said Amoris Laetitia represents a “new paradigm” that calls us to a “new spirit, a new approach” to help “incarnate the Gospel in the family.” In an interview with Vatican ...

Cardinal-designate John Dew of Wellington has appealed for a more pastoral approach for some of the family issues facing New Zealand Catholics. At the 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, he called ...

LOS ANGELES – Iowa’s defense deploys a keep-it-simple-stupid approach, with great effectiveness: The Hawkeyes are one of the stingiest teams in the country. In response, Stanford’s offense is adopting ...

Cardinal Fernando Filoni is getting ready to pay what will be his second visit to Seoul in the space of just a few months. The Italian cardinal, who is the current Prefect of the Congregation for the ...

Greater emphasis on small-group discussions and incorporating that work into the synod's final draft document is helping alleviate any suspicion of the synod being manipulated, said one of the four ...