Cardinal Blase Cupich has denied working with Cardinal Donald Wuerl on an alternative safeguarding proposal for the US bishops.
The Vatican has appointed a new Archbishop of Hanoi amid a property dispute with the Vietnamese government.
Hindu nationalists have beaten up a priest in Uttar Pradesh.
The Greek Orthodox Holy Synod has voted to oppose government proposals to change the relationship between Church and state.
Andrea Gagliarducci says that Pope Francis is now "definitively" reforming the Roman Curia.
