Article By Victor L. Simpson
  • Pope Turns to Veteran Diplomats

    After a season of apparent policy slip-ups, Pope Benedict XVI is shuffling top advisers and bringing in veteran diplomats closely identified with Vatican policy in Iraq and the Middle East.

    Pope Turns to Veteran Diplomats
  • Pope's Priest Calls for Abuse Penance

    Pope Benedict XVI's personal priest asked the pontiff on Friday to declare a day of fasting and penance to express the Roman Catholic Church's solidarity with the victims of clerical sex abuse.

  • Vatican Cautiously Moving Ahead with China Contacts

    Two senior Vatican officials have traveled to China to sound out possibilities of re-establishing diplomatic relations, seeking to overcome a major dispute over the Vatican's tradition that the pope