A silent majority of bishops agree, but one can appreciate why they haven't spoken out

Former US nuncio Archbishop Vigano joined the Kazakhstan bishops in an apparent response to Pope Francis

The country has become a bastion of doctrinal traditionalism. Its traumatic history may be part of the explanation

The former nuncio to the Dominican Republic was sentenced with laicisation

Catholics are staying home amid fighting and kidnapping

Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan has proved himself in tune with the Pontiff's pronouncement on abortion in Evangelii Gaudium

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Cardinal Bertone exhorts international community to fight anti-Christian discrimination with same energy as it combats all religious intolerance