Vatican City, Mar 28, 2018 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- If Vatican-brokered agreements negotiated under his leadership are any indication, it seems clear that when a deal is on the table, Pope Francis usually tries to take it.

In Colombia, with the U.S. and Cuba, and in China, it seems that Francis generally prefers to take an imperfect patch job that might at least begin to restore broken ties, even if it faces opposition, rather than waiting for perfect diplomatic agreement to arise.

Vatican City, Mar 28, 2018 / 06:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has named Fr. Robert F. Christian, O.P., a Dominican friar and a native of San Francisco, as the next auxiliary bishop for his home diocese in California.

In a statement coinciding with the March 28 announcement from the Vatican, San Francisco's Archbishop, Salvatore Cordileone, said he was “overjoyed to welcome Fr. Christian back to his native San Francisco.”

Denver, Colo., Mar 26, 2018 / 04:10 pm (CNA).- As Catholics around the world are buying Easter candy and dyeing boiled eggs, two priests have offered suggestions for getting the most out of Holy Week.

 “The most important, I believe, is to take advantage of the opportunities of prayer, especially attending each of the Triduum liturgies,” said Fr. Gary Benz of the Diocese of Bismarck, N.D.

Vatican City, Mar 26, 2018 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- In the aftermath of Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò’s resignation as prefect of the Secretariat for Communication, rumors in Rome have begun circulating that Viganò’s former deputy, Msgr. Lucio Adrian Ruiz, will be appointed in his place.
 
Msgr. Ruiz has been the interim prefect of the dicastery since Pope Francis accepted Msgr. Viganò’s resignation March 20, following the so-called “Lettergate” scandal.