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China and the Holy See agree to extend their 2018 provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for a further four years.
2024-10-23

The Vatican announces that Pope Francis is sending a donation to Lebanon for 400 scholarships in an expression of his concern for the country’s young people. Lebanon is experiencing a “severe crisis” that is robbing younger generations of hope.
2020-05-14

Pope Francis, in his annual pre-Christmas speech, urged the Roman Curia (cardinals and bishops who direct Holy See actions), to follow his "catalogue of virtues," e.g., to show more maturity, honesty, humility, and sobriety in their tasks. He listed "Curial antibiotics" to treat the "15 ailments of the Curia" he outlined last year and which still plague the Vatican.
2015-12-21

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi announces that the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will be held from October 5 to 19 in 2014, during which the bishops will reflect on the theme of “The pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization.”
2013-10-8

Pope Francis appoints a panel of nine high-ranking prelates from around the world to advise him of the running of the Catholic Church and advise him on the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy.
2013-04-13

Pope Francis appoints Spain's José Rodríguez Carballo, O.F.M., as Secretary to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which oversees all Catholic religious orders, his first nomination to the Vatican bureaucracy.
2013-04-6

The Vatican announces that the 2013 papal conclave to select a new pope will begin on March 12.
2013-03-8

The Holy See establishes the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, for former Anglicans in Australia.
2012-06-15

China is to ordain seven more bishops, amid a dispute with the Vatican.
2011-07-22

Bernard Kouchner, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Vatican offer to assist Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Iran.
2010-09-6