Catholics should engage in dialogue with Jews rather than seek to convert them, Benedict XVI has said.

A Vatican official has called for a ban on “killer robots”.

Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has called the Holy See-China deal “a slap in the face to millions of Catholics”.

Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion has met Kim Jong-un in North Korea.

Andrew Kuiper asks whether Vladimir Solovyov converted to Catholicism.

Fr Raymond de Souza explains how Bishop Morlino “attracted an abundance of priestly vocations”.

And Philip Kosloski suggests ways the housebound can take part in Mass.

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