David Kertzer plumbs Vatican archives for evidence of Pius XII's moral failures, including public silence on Nazi atrocities and destruction of files on clerics accused of sex abuse.
The Catholic Church's process of reconciliation in China is not a "competition or who is right, but of brothers and sisters in the faith," said Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Half a century after Pope Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae, church leaders in Eastern Europe continue to vigorously defend the encyclical, in contrast to many commentators in the U.S. and Western Europe.
Cuban Catholics, ordained and lay, on both sides of the Florida Strait, have connected to strengthen Cuban parishes and civil society; they aim to build bridges between Cuba and the outside world.
China's ruling Communist Party has dissolved its long-standing State Administration for Religious Affairs bureau and handed its functions to the party's United Front Work Department.
Book Review: Inara Verzemnieks' story is similar to Nina Willner's: Both present history through the eyes of those tyrannized by it. Both center on World War II and feature two sisters — one who stays with her parents enduring extreme deprivation and the other who leaves the homeland for a better life in the U.S.
