Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter to serve as apostolic administrator of Australia's Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, the Vatican announced May 11. The appointment means Lopes will now...

Catholics nationwide are being asked to implement the instructions of the 2026 national training session on the “Sinicization of Catholicism,” held in April at the Central Institute of Socialism in Beijing. The event and resulting directives offered yet another unvarnished demonstration of what “Sinicization” means in...