A visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to a church in China is not a sign that the secretive communist regime’s stance toward religion is softening.
As France continues its campaign to expel foreign-born Roma, Pope Benedict XVI called on Aug. 22 for greater acceptance of cultural differences and urged parents to teach their children “universal fraternity.”
The controversy surrounding a bishop in a diocese outside of Beijing illustrates the problems facing Chinese Catholic communities.
The California Catholic bishops’ conference alerts parents of public school children of ways to “opt out” of classes that contradict their family’s values.
A spokesman for Cardinal Godfried Danneels said the transcript of a meeting in April with a victim of clerical sexual abuse has been taken out of context.
The U.K.’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien accuses the BBC of institutional bias against “Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.”
The pastoral letter from Mexico's bishops addresses centuries-old divisions over ethnicity and the often strained relationship between church and state.