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At Vatican Synod, Women’s Issues Are Relegated to a Side Group

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more leadership roles, even in seminaries.

World - The New York Times - October 27

Vatican in row at climate talks over gender rights

Charities worry it could block a crucial deal giving women more support in the face of climate change.

Vatican Issues First Report on Sex Abuse, to Immediate Criticism

The report is intended to assess efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to safeguard minors and others. Advocates for survivors called it an exercise in obfuscation.

World - The New York Times - October 29

Vatican tribunal explains conviction of cardinal and others in 'trial of the century'

The Vatican tribunal says it convicted a cardinal of aggravated fraud and other charges because of his “objectively inexplicable behavior” in paying a self-styled intelligence analyst more than a ...

World - ABC News - October 31

Conclave: the fun, exciting Vatican thriller is perfect election escapism

The Oscar-tipped papal saga, starring Ralph Fiennes, offers all the thrills of an election … without the grim reality. Given, well … everything this week, you could be forgiven for never wanting ...

World - The Guardian - November 9

Abuse survivors urge the Vatican to globalize the zero-tolerance policy it approved in the US

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse are urging the Vatican to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002

World - ABC News - 4 days ago

Vatican Sets Out New Rules to Simplify Papal Funerals

Pope Francis’s down-to-earth style has become a trademark of his papacy. New rules for papal burials are another step to seal it into his legacy.

World - The New York Times - 3 days ago

Pope warns the Vatican pension fund needs reform; employees demand transparency

Pope Francis is warning that the Vatican's troubled pension fund faces a “serious imbalance” and cannot guarantee future obligations without “urgent structural” reforms

World - ABC News - 2 days ago

Pope's child protection board urges transparency from Vatican sex abuse office and compensation

Pope Francis’ child protection board has issued its first-ever global assessment of the Catholic Church's efforts to address the clergy sex abuse crisis

World - ABC News - October 29

Catholic church still failing to deal with sexual abuse cases, says Vatican report

Vatican’s child protection commission delivers first report on scandal that has engulfed church for decades. Church leaders who fail to take action against paedophile priests are a “further source ...

World - The Guardian - October 29

Vatican, Microsoft create AI St. Peter's Basilica to allow virtual visits, log damage

A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’s

World - ABC News - November 11

Baldur's Gate 3 Mods Help Player Numbers Grow, And Someone In The Vatican Just Bought A Copy

More than a year after Baldur's Gate 3 originally launched in August 2023, the game is still putting up impressive numbers, and has even sold one additional copy to someone who may know Pope ...

Tech - GameSpot - 5 days ago

Pope approves new papal funeral rites to simplify ritual, allow for burial outside the Vatican

Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that will be used when he dies

World - ABC News - 3 days ago

Pope Francis approves new papal funeral rites for when he dies to simplify rituals, allow for burial outside the Vatican

World - ABC News - 3 days ago

Mixed news on China’s stimulus

And regional banks as a Trump trade

World - Financial Times - November 11

To China, Trump is ‘poison’

To the dismay of Chinese leaders who already had to deal with Trump for four years, they have not gotten the preferred outcome and are not looking forward to another term.

Politics - The Hill - November 13

China’s economy braces for Trump

Will Beijing’s latest plans to fix the country’s economy be enough to keep up with President Xi Jinping’s long-term plans for growth?

World - Financial Times - 3 days ago

China delimits contested South China Sea shoal in dispute with Philippines

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims

World - ABC News - November 10

UK borrowing costs hit highest level this year as gilt sell-off intensifies

Bond markets unnerved by scale of extra borrowing in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget

Business - Financial Times - October 31

Western consumer groups unconvinced by China’s economic stimulus efforts

Falling sales for luxury, beauty and beer companies fuel doubts about Beijing’s attempts to boost confidence

Business - Financial Times - October 31

China fright ups the stakes for AstraZeneca

Pharma group needs some good news to ease investors’ nerves

World - Financial Times - November 7

The ideology behind Xi Jinping’s China

How Marxist-Leninist theory still shapes policy in Beijing

World - Financial Times - November 14

China braces for second Trump term

While on the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to put large tariffs on Chinese goods to protect American manufacturing, which might threaten the Asian nation's already-slowing ...

Britain needs a coherent China strategy

The Labour government must determine where UK ‘red lines’ lie

Business - Financial Times - 4 days ago

Will China win the clean-energy era?

Trump loves fossil fuels but his sidekick Musk wants a piece of the action

World - Financial Times - 2 days ago

China Readies for Trump Tariff Wave

A senior trade official says the U.S. taxes on Chinese exports will backfire, and the country’s economy can withstand ‘external shocks.’

Business - Inc. - Yesterday

Sinologist Li Cheng: ‘America is not in the mood to study China’

The political expert on the breakdown of US-Sino relations, what Xi Jinping’s fourth term might hold — and why neither Harris nor Trump makes him hopeful of change

Business - Financial Times - October 25

Mercedes-Benz and Porsche look for cost cuts after China slump hits profits

German carmakers exposed to Asian nation’s economic malaise after benefiting from its booming auto market

Business - Financial Times - October 25

China hack targeted senior congressional Democrats

Chinese hackers also targeted cell phones belonging to senior Democratic officials in addition to former President Trump, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and people in the Harris campaign, The Associated ...

Politics - The Hill - October 26

Voters: Beware the government’s China problem at home and abroad

If the public turns a blind eye to the Chinese government’s actions within our borders and to the broader implications of foreign policy on domestic security, who will pay attention?

Politics - The Hill - October 26

China’s industrial profits plunge as economic momentum falters

Steep monthly decline in September comes as policymakers battle to restore confidence

Business - Financial Times - October 27

Bullied by China at Sea, With the Broken Bones to Prove It

A violent attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat tests Hanoi’s muted but resolute approach to China’s aggression in the South China Sea.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 28

How Russia, China and Iran Are Interfering in the Presidential Election

Eight years after Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, foreign influence with American voters has grown more sophisticated. That could have outsize consequences in the 2024 race.

Tech - The New York Times - October 29

Why Europe’s car crisis is mostly made in China

The once-lucrative market is now highly competitive and more Chinese EVs are being exported, compounding slower sales at home

World - Financial Times - October 29

China loses third of its billionaires as economy falters

ByteDance chief Zhang Yiming leads country’s ‘rich list’ with $49bn fortune