Cardinal Joseph Zen, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong, blogs : I read the speech given by Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness, in Milan on October 3. [Rorate: in that speech, Cardinal Parolin defended the Vatican’s attitude and deal, and the confirmation of the deal, with Communist China.] It Read more…
AsiaNews reports : – “I am incompetent”, “I have no talent”, “I am not in step with the times”, “I do not want to be an obstacle to progress”: these are some of the reasons that Msgr. Vincenzo Guo Xijin listed in his speech delivered yesterday at his last public Read more…
Bree A.Dail reports for the National Catholic Register : Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun returned to Hong Kong from Rome Sunday, after seeking a meeting with Pope Francis. The purpose for the trip, he told the Register, was primarily to advocate for the elevation and installation of a new bishop successor Read more…
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : The Vatican’s second-in-command is defending the Holy See’s deal with China, a day before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to shame Pope Francis for wanting to renew the controversial concordat. Cdl. Zen pleads with Francis not to appoint a pro-China bishop Read more…
Dorothy Cummings McLean reports for LifeSiteNews : A Chinese ethics textbook developed with some oversight from the communist Chinese government depicts Jesus killing the woman caught in adultery. The Union of Catholic Asian News (UCA News) reported last week that a textbook produced for vocational students by the Chinese University Read more…
Bitter Winter reports : On September 1, Father Liu Maochun from the Diocese of Mindong in the southeastern province of Fujian was visiting patients in a hospital when police took him away. Police officers interrogated him in a detention house in the county-level city of Fu’an. A source in the Read more…
“Corruptio optimi pessima.” – Saint Gregory the Great Carlo Maria Viganò, writes : Seeking to find any coherence of the recent action of the Society of Jesus with the original intentions of Saint Ignatius of Loyola is an arduous if not impossible task, to the point that in hindsight Read more…
Elizabeth Yore writes for Crisis Magazine : As the ancient Chinese proverb warns, a bad beginning makes for a bad ending. In June of 2013, Pope Francis dispatched to China the infamous Theodore McCarrick to begin deliberations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to normalize relations with the Chinese Catholic Church. Read more…
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning Pope Francis that the Vatican risks endangering its moral authority if it renews its controversial secret deal with China. Persecuted Chinese Catholics feel betrayed by Pope Francis “No regime suppresses faith on a larger Read more…
George Weigel writes for Catholic World Report – There is something deeply awry in Massimo Faggioli’s understanding of contemporary China and his defense of the Vatican Ostpolitik of the late 1960s and 1970s. The defense of the dubious by the ill-informed can lead to the preposterous – and that is Read more…
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