The Holy See and China have reached “a preliminary consensus" on bishops' appointments, Cardinal John Tong has said (full text).
Cardinal George Pell's spokesman has accused the Greens party of pursuing an "anti-religion agenda" after it urged the cardinal to return to Australia to assist police.
A bishop in South Sudan has criticised the government's "silence" over the murder of Sister Veronika Racková.
George Weigel argues that the preparatory document for the 2018 synod "comprehensively ignores" St John Paul II.
