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

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

(RNS and NPR) — Ten states have abortion on the ballot this year, yet Catholic bishops have contributed money in only three of them — and significantly less than they donated to anti-abortion ...

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 ...

Recognizing the doctrinal authority of bishops’ conferences does not mean allowing them to reject the teaching authority of ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic ... bishops attending the Nov. 11-14 plenary assembly will discuss a comprehensive report on the multiyear synodal process begun by Pope Francis in 2021 and ...

A leading U.K. bishop has vowed to make the Church a place of “safety and sanctuary for all” after a report showed a third of Mass-goers reduced their Mass attendance because of concerns about ...

The bishops of Haiti are echoing their Dominican counterparts in objecting to the immigration measures of the newly elected president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, who this month ...