China is preparing to give the Holy See a greater role in the selection of bishops, according to reports. The Vatican has reportedly ordered a Spanish archbishop to take stronger action over an alleged clerical paedophile ring. Foreign stag parties are spoiling the Polish city of Kraków with "debauchery and drunkenness”, Cardinal Dziwisz has said. The title Pope Emeritus should be replaced with the term Cardinal Bishop Emeritus, German historian Hubert Wolf has argued. John Allen explains what you need to do "to get anything done in 21st-century Catholicism”. Matt Flegenheimer notes the budding friendship between Cardinal Timothy Dolan and New York mayor Bill de Blasio. And actor Bill Murray says "we lost something by losing the Latin" Mass. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day
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