Plans to ban asylum seekers arriving by boat in Australia from ever being able to apply for a visa are "deeply disappointing", Bishop Vincent Long has said.

Archbishop Charles Scicluna has told the Maltese government that a new equality bill "would encroach upon the religious freedom of the Church".

Archbishop Stanislav Hočevar of Belgrade has called for the canonisation of wartime Croatian Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac.

Edward Pentin presents the full list of members of the recently overhauled Congregation for Divine Worship.