Pope Francis is set to visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September, delighting Catholics in the region. It is possible he will also stop in Vietnam.
Bishop Robert Barron told Fox News Digital that the release of the Vatican document "Dignitas infinita" on Monday shows "how stupid it is" to categorize the church as "right" or "left."
The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith admonished the practices of gender reassignment surgery and surrogate pregnancy on Monday, calling them threats to human dignity.
The Vatican announced a document is forthcoming next week that will provide guidance on gender ideology and surrogate pregnancies from the perspective of human dignity.
After suing two journalists for reports on sexual abuse and financial corruption, a Peruvian archbishop, Josรฉ Eguren, has resigned in the midst of a Vatican investigation.
Pope John Paul II died on April 2, 2005, at age 84. The Polish-born pontiff had the third-longest papal reign in history and the second-longest of the modern era.