There is a pile of unfinished business from 2012 and the nation’s looming “fiscal cliff” to step back from.
A high-ranking Vatican official from China says he does not expect much to change in church-state relations with the new Chinese government.
Bishop-designate William Crean, appointed on Nov. 24 to Ireland’s Diocese of Cloyne, vowed he would make a priority of healing the pain caused by the sexual abuse scandal.