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Cardinal Grech: will the next pope come from Malta?

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Maltese Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, has said he views the open letters on the Synodal Path as a “public denunciation” in an interview with Herder Thema. The Synodal Path has come in for considerable criticism, amid warnings from the Vatican and fears about a schism, but the prelate said

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The housing crisis is a Catholic crisis too

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The Catholic Church cannot duck out of the cost-of-living crisis impacting people across the developed world. The problem today does not only afflict densely-populated countries in Europe, but increasingly major metropolitan areas in North America and Australasia as well. The upshot is the delay of family formation, in many cases worsening an already-declining fertility rate,

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Why is the Vatican so relaxed about persecution?

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One of the most dispiriting things about the recent Vatican-China deal, and its looming second renewal (in spite of the fact that renewal will essentially green light ongoing persecution of Christians within China) is how remarkably chilled out so many Western Catholics appear to be. One would have thought Catholics would be up in arms

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Is Cardinal Zen a bargaining chip for Beijing in Vatican deal?

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Cardinal Joseph Zen – a long-standing critic of the Vatican’s accommodation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – has now has his trial date set for September 19, following his earlier arrest under China’s national security law. He and four others face charges of failing to properly register a now-defunct fund to help anti-government protesters

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Pope Francis should speak up for Taiwan

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On Tuesday, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, the island democracy which China views as a renegade province. Although the US does not officially recognise Taiwan as an independent state, in reality most countries – including the US – view Taiwan as a country in its own right. For the Chinese Communist Party

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How the Catholic Church can reverse its collapse in Latin America

by | Jul 29, 2022 | , , , , , , | 0 |

Latin America has long been associated with Catholicism. For the first time in history, the head of the Church is a Latin American. To this day, Brazil and Mexico rank as the second and third most Catholic countries on earth, while the Church has shaped both the social mores and politics of the region. Yet,

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Will the Catholic Church inevitably turn from the West?

by | Jul 28, 2022 | , , , , , | 0 |

If demography and culture are destiny, then the Vatican – and wider Christian community – have a serious problem, in the Western world at least. The German Synodal Path may be an attempt at liberal pushback against what many German Catholics see as an alienating conservativism by the Vatican, but it faces an uphill struggle

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Catholics still persecuted in China, confirms Taiwan Government

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China’s persecution of Catholics has escalated, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, even as one Vatican official said the two sides are talking about opening a representative office in Beijing. According to spokesperson Joanne Ou, the Vatican has been requesting China’s permission for a representative office to be established since 1999. Yet, as the

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Persecution of the faithful: the greatest story never told

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Peninah was only 24-years-old when her husband Paul was murdered by Al-Shabaab terrorists in Kenya. Attackers with Kalashnikovs, lined the men up in the street and demanded they recite sections of the Koran. Paul was a Christian and they shot him. In Afghanistan, the Taliban dragged Zabi’s 60-year-old Christian father away into the night. After

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Bishop rebukes Irish president for blaming Islamist massacre on climate change

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Attributing violence against Nigeria’s Christians to climate change is “incorrect and far-fetched,” according to the bishop of a diocese where at least 40 people were murdered at a Pentecost Sunday Mass. Bishop Jude Ayodeji Arogundade of Ondo was responding to a statement issued by Irish president Michael Higgins after the June 5 massacre at St.

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Cardinal Zen arrested by China for alleged ‘collusion with foreign forces’

by | May 11, 2022 | , , | 0 |

Cardinal Joseph Zen has been arrested by the authorities in Hong Kong, according to local media reports. The 90-year-old former Catholic bishop of Hong Kong was reportedly detained on May 11 in his role as a trustee of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which helped pro-democracy protesters to pay their legal fees. The Standard newspaper

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Iraq’s Christians are still waiting for a miracle

by | Mar 7, 2022 | , , , | 0 |

A year ago Pope Francis made an historic pilgrimage to Iraq. Journalist John Cookson covered the visit for the Catholic Herald and now he’s returned to discover if the papal visit has changed the lives of the country’s beleaguered Christians. This is the first of two reports.

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