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Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of ...

China agreement on bishop appointments, renewed in 2022, has been extended for four more years, Beijing announced. While ...

China and the Vatican have agreed to extend an accord on the appointment of Catholic bishops in the communist country for a ...

The Chinese government said it has agreed to extend a provisional agreement with the Vatican on the appointment of Catholic ...

China and the Vatican have agreed to extend an accord on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for a longer period of ...

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government said Tuesday that it had agreed with the Vatican to extend a provisional agreement on ...

The visit of the Pope's envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi to Moscow, held on October 14-16 and dedicated to humanitarian issues, is ...

We know that the Holy Father has expressed that at this time the issue of the female diaconate is not mature and has asked ...

On Tuesday Vatican and Chinese authorities announced that they had extended a controversial agreement on episcopal ...

St. John Paul II was the second-longest-serving pope in modern history with 27 years of pontificate and the first non-Italian ...

Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said that a commission on women deacons created by Pope Francis in 2020 and led by ...