1.   Castro also held a rare encounter last month with Cuban Catholic bishops at the home of the Vatican envoy in Havana.

2.   The disclosure brought angry criticism of the Vatican envoy, Jeronimo Prigione, by politicians and clerics.

3.   Vatican envoys in the Middle East, Washington and Brussels, Belgium, have also been instructed to support diplomatic moves to end the fighting.

4.   A U.N. birth control proponent and a Vatican envoy squared off Tuesday on whether a U.N. conference on urban problems should take a stand on reproductive rights.

5.   A special service was planned for Sunday, to be led by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, a Vatican envoy who had been involved in negotiations to end the standoff.

6.   A Vatican envoy denied Wednesday that Pope John Paul II plans to remove the outspoken bishop of East Timor in an attempt to placate Indonesia.

7.   A Vatican envoy visited in March to talk about establishing diplomatic relations and paving the way for a visit by Pope John Paul II.

8.   Another service was held Sunday led by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, a Vatican envoy who had been involved in negotiations to end the standoff.

9.   Another service planned for later Sunday was to be led by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, a Vatican envoy who had been involved in negotiations to end the standoff.

10.   In November, a senior Vatican envoy, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, traveled to Beijing for meetings considered important to opening a possible dialogue on religion.