The Holy Year of Mercy arrives in advance in this land that has suffered from war.

There was one clear winner at this year's post-synod elections: Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle.

Some find Pope Francis’ ecclesiology ‘somewhat threatening.’

Something important has changed in Sino-Vatican relations.

"We don’t want an abrupt change that would produce a different type of gold rush: from Communism to consumerism overnight.”

The crackdown against Christianity has taken various forms.