Cardinal Prevost stressed bishops' conferences should apply doctrine to local contexts without rejecting the pope's authority ...

Pope Francis remains enthusiastic about the Vatican’s provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops. He ...

China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four ...

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The Chinese government’s persecution of the Chinese Catholic Church is targeted against the hierarchs who resist Chinese ...

The provisional agreement was first signed in 2018 and then renewed in 2020 and 2022. The most recent two-year renewal signed ...

In recent years, Catholic bishops have spent millions on campaigns to defeat abortion rights measures at the ballot box. This ...

The Vatican and the Chinese government are renewing their agreement on the appointment of bishops and extending it from a two ...

11, 2021. (photo: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk via CNA ... Back in September, Bishop John Sherrington, who represents the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales on life issues, warned that ...

But Catholic bishops are taking a very different approach this year, according to an analysis by NPR and Religion News Service. As voters in 10 states consider abortion-related ballot questions ...

Catholic bishops donated roughly $30,000 in Missouri, where an abortion rights amendment is on the ballot. That's just a fraction of the nearly $3.7 million that a Kansas diocese donated two years ...