Cardinal Godfried Danneels is lodging a civil complaint for breach of confidentiality after it emerged that a picture of a naked girl found on his computer was simply an automatically downloaded work of art.
The New York Times has published another scathing editorial about Pope Benedict and the abuse crisis.
A Catholic priest and a nun have been stabbed to death at a nursing home in northern China.
A Scottish bishop has insisted that the Pope's visit to Britain will "justify the costs".
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has become possibly the first bishops' conference in the world to issue guidelines on social media.
