Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/01/14
The Chinese government is still intent on “enslaving” the Catholic Church, despite hopes raised by Pope Francis’s election, Cardinal Joseph Zen has said. Rebels have looted a Catholic cathedral in...
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Franciscan Sister Mary Melone is expected to become the first female rector of a pontifical university in Rome. Francis should not visit China because his trip “would be manipulated”, Cardinal Joseph...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 08/01/15
Works of mercy are at the heart of the Christian faith, the Pope has said at his first public Mass of the year at the Domus Sanctae Marthae (video). Cardinal Joseph Zen has said he is not satisfied by...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 05/08/16
Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako has issued a six-point plan for rebuilding Iraq after ISIS. Unidentified perpetrators have burned down a Catholic church in southern Chile. At least 14 of Ireland’s 26...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 09/12/16
Pope Francis prayed for the unemployed at the foot of the Column of the Immaculate Conception yesterday (full video). We should avoid offering “half Yeses” to God, the Pope said at yesterday’s Angelus....
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 20/02/17
Christian love “represents a superior realisation of justice”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Hundreds have attended the crowning of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 22/02/17
Cardinal Joseph Zen has said that he has written “many letters” to Pope Francis expressing concern at a Vatican-China deal, but “he doesn’t answer my letters”. Vatican Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran begins...
View ArticleCardinal Zen: ‘It seems the Vatican-China deal is not proceeding. That’s good’
The Salesian House of Studies has not changed much since it was built on a Hong Kong hillside in the 1930s. But the city around it has altered beyond recognition. Tower blocks, main roads and schools...
View ArticleMorning 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...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 02/10/17
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...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 17/10/17
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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