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”.