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- Vatican and China Renew Deal Over Appointment of Bishops
  
  Daniel Ibanez Pope Francis waves at pilgrims from China at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on September 7, 2016. The Vatican also offered a lengthy defense of the agreement, saying that...
- Vatican and China Renew Provisional Agreement on Appointment of Bishops
  
  Freshstock Flags of China and the Vatican. Following the Vatican-China agreement in 2018, state officials in different regions of China removed crosses and demolished church buildings, and...
- Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan Were a Match Made in Heaven
  
  National Archives/ White House Photographic Collection; Public domain President Ronald Reagan greets Pope St. John Paul II at Miami International Airport Sept. 10, 1987. COMMENTARY: The providential...
- What’s at Stake in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
  
  Aziz Karimov People walk by houses destroyed in a shelling attack on October 21, 2020 in Ganja, Azerbaijan. Alexandre Del Valle, an internationally renowned geopolitician, explains that Azerbaijan...
- In Grim Accounting, Canadian Report Says Assisted Suicide Saves Health Care Money
  
  Jacob Lund An elderly woman sits alone in her room. While the report acknowledged cost savings of assisted suicide, it said “this report should in no way be interpreted as suggesting that (medical...

Catholic News Service
- Vatican extends provisional agreement with China on naming bishops
  
  VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican and the Chinese government will extend an agreement signed...
- Society of the Divine Word marks 125 years of ministry in North America
  
  CLEVELAND (CNS) — Arriving in the United States as a refugee from Vietnam in 1980,...
- UPDATE: Pope has history of defending marriage, but being open to some civil unions
  
  VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis often has expressed openness to the idea of laws...
- True prayer, like true faith, leads to care for others, pope says
  
  VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Being indifferent to or hating others is to deny the existence...
- UPDATE: The Trial of the Chicago 7
  
  NEW YORK (CNS) — As demonstrated by the popularity of his long-running TV series “The...
News from the Vatican
- True prayer, like true faith, leads to care for others, pope says
  
  Being indifferent to or hating others is to deny the existence of God's presence in one's neighbor, Pope Francis said.
- Pope donates money to families of crew members after cargo ship disaster
  
  Pope Francis sent an undisclosed amount of money to the families of the missing crew members of a cargo ship that capsized off the coast of Japan in September.
- Pope endorses same-sex civil unions in new documentary film
  
  Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco,” which had its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on...
- Pope reverts to mask-less old ways amid growing criticism
  
  A day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service, Pope Francis was back to his mask-less old ways Wednesday despite surging coronavirus infections across Europe and...
- Pope wearing a mask appeals for fraternity at interfaith prayer
  
  During an ecumenical and interreligious prayer liturgy for peace Tuesday, Pope Francis issued an appeal to fraternity as a remedy to war and conflict, insisting that love is what allows room for...