Morning Catholic must-reads: 25/05/17
Cardinal Orlando Quevedo has urged Muslim leaders to help secure the release of a priest and congregation kidnapped by ISIS-linked militants in Marawi. Filipino Archbishop Martin Jumoad has backed...
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Catholics can’t improve politics by “just looking and criticising the work of others from the balcony”, Pope Francis said during a pastoral visit to Cesena yesterday (full video). Maronite Patriarch...
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Population control is a “false solution” to the problem of hunger, Pope Francis told the UN Food and Agriculture Organization yesterday (Inés San Martín, full text, full video). The Southern African...
View ArticleWhy is the Vatican still negotiating with China’s sinister Orwellian state?
It seems clear that Mr Xi, the leader of Communist China, is now the most important such leader since Chairman Mao, the Great Helmsman himself. The signs are hard to read for us Westerners, but we have...
View ArticleAfter papal meeting, Cardinal Zen says Vatican ‘selling out’ Church in China
Cardinal Joseph Zen has accused the Vatican of “selling out” the Catholic Church in China. In a post on his website, the former Bishop of Hong Kong said Pope Francis offered words of consolation to the...
View ArticleVatican and China ‘ready to sign deal on bishops’
An accord between the Vatican and China’s Communist government could be signed within the next few months. Reuters reports that an unnamed “senior Vatican source” said the deal would allow the Holy See...
View ArticleHow despots exploit Vatican foreign policy
Could it be that the Holy See under Pope Francis is curiously indulgent of authoritarian regimes? The Holy Father is an undisputed friend of the downtrodden, but it sometimes seems that he is also a...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 02/03/18
Prelates who interfere in abuse cases “out of pity for the perpetrator” are causing “great harm”, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said. The Holy See-China deal is a “shameless surrender”, Cardinal Joseph...
View ArticleCardinal Zen: China deal is ‘shameless surrender’
The rumoured deal between the Holy See and China is an “act of suicide” and a “shameless surrender”, Cardinal Joseph Zen has said. In a recent blog post, the former Bishop of Hong Kong blamed papal...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 14/05/18
Pope Francis prayed for the victims of Indonesia’s church bombings at yesterday’s Regina Caeli (full text, full video). The Cause of the first African American priest is advancing. Cardinal Joseph Zen...
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