Pope Francis has appointed 16 members (eight men and eight women) to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Western journalists have been too easily swayed by misleading accounts circulated by those opposed to an entente.

This makes one hope for a world in which conflicts are resolved peacefully through dialogue and mutual respect, as sport also teaches.

The Vatican's sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony from a Chilean sex-abuse victim whose pleas to be heard by Pope Francis were previously ignored.

Mary McAleese, who has a gay son and has criticized the church’s position on L.G.B.T. issues, was invited to participate in a panel discussion on women in church governance.

Seven illicit bishops have asked Pope Francis for pardon and requested reconciliation with him and the universal church.