“Dialogue is the way of the best diplomacy,” Pope Francis said, and when it comes to China, “I have opted for the way of dialogue. It is slow, it has its failures, it has its successes, but I cannot...
On Saturday the Vatican called out Chinese authorities for violating the terms of their controversial deal on episcopal appointments by installing a bishop in a diocese that is not recognized by Rome.
Daniel Anrig, 50, a former member of the Swiss Guard and a former police captain in Switzerland, had been appointed commander of the guard in 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI.