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by bcadmin | Nov 16, 2022 | Bishop Appointment, China, Chinese bishops, Chinese Catholics, Church in Asia, Evangelization, lead, News, Propaganda Fidei, provisional agreement, Vatican, Vatican-China | 0 |
An official who works in the Vatican office overseeing so-called “mission territories” in Asia, Africa, and throughout the developing world has said the church must be “realistic” in engaging governments of countries such as China or Vietnam.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 28, 2022 | Cardinal Joseph Zen, Catholic News Service, China, Chinese bishops, Chinese Catholics, Church in Africa, Hong Kong, News | 0 |
Cardinal Joseph Zen and five other activists returned to court Oct. 26 to face charges of failing to register a legal fund meant to help those involved in anti-government protests.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2022 | Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, China, lead, News, Pope Francis, provisional agreement, Vatican, Vatican-China | 0 |
Two top-ranking Vatican officials have praised the renewal of the Vatican’s agreement with China on the appointment of bishops, saying it is a down-payment on a freer exercise of faith for Chinese Catholics in the future.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | Catholic population, China, demography, lead, Nato, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine | 0 |
The fact that Francis and his Vatican allies sometimes sound more like China, or India, than their historical partners in the West when talking about Ukraine is, naturally, another reason why some Catholic critics are unhappy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Cardinal Joseph Zen, Catholic News Service, China, Chinese bishops, Chinese Catholics, Church in Asia, Hong Kong, News | 0 |
After only two days, the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court adjourned the trial of Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, and four co-defendants, until Oct. 26.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 26, 2022 | Associated Press, Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, Chinese bishops, Chinese Catholics, Church in Asia, Hong Kong, lead, News | 0 |
A 90-year-old Catholic cardinal and five others stood trial in Hong Kong on Monday for allegedly failing to register a now-defunct fund set up to assist people arrested in the mass anti-government protests in the city three years ago.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 24, 2022 | Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, democracy, Hong Kong, lead, News, Vatican, Vatican-China | 0 |
As the trial of Cardinal Joseph Zen, which was postponed but is set to begin next week, approaches in Hong Kong, a fellow cardinal has weighed in, praising Zen as both an authentic Chinaman and a credible witness to Christ.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 23, 2022 | Catholic News Service, China, Chinese bishops, Chinese Catholics, Church in Asia, fides, News, Sino-Vatican dialogue, Vatican, Vatican-China | 0 |
The newly appointed editor of the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization said the Vatican deal with China on bishops has been instrumental in allowing Catholics to practice their faith openly and in communion with the church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Cardinals, China, Dominus Iesus, Evangelization, Germany, News, Russia, The Dispatch, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
At the “information meeting” of the College of Cardinals this past Aug. 29-30, there was considerable agreement that evangelization is Catholicism’s prime imperative for the 21st century — a consensus understandably gratifying to the author […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 19, 2022 | bishop emeritus, Cardinal Joseph Zen, Catholic Church in China, Catholic news, China, COVID-19, Hong Kong, News, News Briefs, US | 0 |
Cardinal Joseph Zen speaks during a Mass at the Holy Cross Church on May 24, 2022, in Hong Kong, China. The cardinal was set to stand trial on Sept. 19, 2022, in connection to his role as a trustee of a pro-democracy legal fund, which he and o…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 19, 2022 | Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, Church in Asia, democracy, Hong Kong, lead, News, Pope Francis, provisional agreement, Religious Freedom, Vatican-China | 0 |
On Monday the trial against Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen and five other defendants formally opened in Hong Kong, initiating highly controversial proceedings that have been widely criticized as an attack against democracy and religious freedom.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, inter-faith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, News Analysis, Russian Orthodox Church, Xi Jinping | 0 |
Embracing the ecumenical movement has strengthened the moral authority of popes considerably, but also made them more vulnerable to pressures they can’t directly control.
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