Recent denials of visas to Catholic Church personnel in Israel threatens to harm relations between the Vatican and the Jewish state. A Catholic archbishop questions why the restrictions have begun all of a sudden.

Africa’s traditions such as those of tribal chiefs could be partly to blame for government corruption but that “it has much more to do with the socialist ideology," Cardinal Wilfred Fox Napier tells Newsmax.

Pope Benedict XVI hopes that Vatican meetings with the breakaway Society of St. Pius X will lead to the traditionalist group’s reconciliation with the Catholic Church.

The head of the U.S. Catholic bishops is unsure how healthcare legislation will turn out, as the "ground keeps shifting." Although President Obama has promised the plan would not cover abortion, the bishops are concerned, Cardinal Francis George says.

An African cardinal has said the election of a black Pope is a good possibility, just as the United Nations has had a black secretary general and the United States a black president.