ROME--The Vatican on Tuesday answered its critics and defended its pursuit of an extended agreement with China on bishop nominations, acknowledging difficulties but insisting the effort had ...

As the Vatican tries to settle a chaotic yearlong dispute between a Carmelite monastery and Diocese of Fort Worth Bishop ...

Brazil, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey are all members of the G-20 with a track record of seeking to ...

Nuns at an Arlington-based monastery have accused Bishop Michael Olson of "an ugly attempt to seize control of our governance ...

If we don’t have more “Francis bishops” in the church, that’s why. Vatican labor practices, which are modeled on Italian law, make it more difficult to fire a layperson in the Vatican than ...

The Vatican's recent document on human dignity shows that the Catholic Church transcends secular ideas of "left" and "right," America's most popular bishop says. Bishop Robert Barron of the ...

"We are not things to be traded or given away in backroom deals," the nuns wrote in a four-page response to the decree posted ...

In the Vatican’s letter to the monastery about the transfer of governing authority, the Church has ordered the nuns to “withdraw and rescind your declaration” challenging the bishop’s ...

The Vatican announced on Saturday that the priest ordained in the Philippines and incardinated into the Sacramento Diocese in ...

Arlington nuns at the center of a vicious dispute with the Fort Worth bishop have rejected a Vatican decree to place them under new authority, saying it amounts to a hostile takeover. In a ...

These are the words of the bishop of Cagliari, Monsignor Baturi, at the end of this morning's meeting - in the Vatican - between the Sardinian bishops and the Pontiff. The meeting on the occasion ...

The chair of the Irish bishops’ Council for Life has welcomed the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s new document on human dignity, Dignitas Infinita. In a statement, Bishop Kevin Doran ...