Maximino Caballero Ledo has extensive experience as a finance leader with Baxter International, a Fortune 500 American health care company.

Peter Seewald described Pope Benedict as “extremely frail,” and as saying that while he is mentally sharp, his voice is barely audible.

Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny: “We had to be as shocked and stuck” during lockdown before “our eyes began to open.”

Novices and women religious, especially those who have been assigned to a country where they don’t know the language, can be particularly vulnerable to abuses of power and conscience by superiors, and sexual abuse by their formators, said an article in “La Civilta Cattolica.”

The attacks came ahead of talks on renewal of a landmark 2018 deal that helped thaw diplomatic relations.

The Vatican document bars laypeople from leading parishes and emphasizes the role of priests.