UCANews: The government is exacting revenge against seven priests in Heilongjiang province who resisted the illicit episcopal ordination of Father Joseph Yue Fusheng in Harbin earlier this month, local Church sources say. They said the priests were forced to leave … Continue reading
AsiaNews: Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin, ordained auxiliary bishop of Shanghai on July 7, with the approval of the Pope, was taken away by a group of religious officials in the evening, but nobody knew where they took him to. Some … Continue reading
AsiaNews: Note against note; excommunication against excommunication, real pain against false pain; theology against base politics: in response to the note released by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on the ordination without papal mandate to be held in … Continue reading
AsiaNews: For months the faithful of Harbin (Heilongjiang) have been praying and fasting lest the Episcopal ordination without papal mandate go ahead, now they are quietly satisfied: the ordination, scheduled for tomorrow, will not happen. Full report here.
AsiaNews: Catholics in Harbin (Heilongjiang), in far north-east China, are praying and fasting to avert an episcopal ordination without papal mandate. Sources tell AsiaNews that “no one wants this ordination: neither official nor underground Catholics not even the candidate himself. … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: The persecution of the Church in China is becoming “more real and concrete,” Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the retired bishop of Hong Kong, said in a recent interview. “They are employing increasingly dangerous and skilled methods, because they … Continue reading
Thomas J. Craughwell for National Catholic Register: No China scholar wants to answer a knock on the door and find Chinese government officials standing at his doorstep. Yet, in 2006, that is what happened to Jesuit Father Paul Mariani. He … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: A special papal commission on the Church in China has exhorted Chinese Catholics to resist the efforts by the government-backed Patriotic Association to control the Church. Full report here.
UCANews: Father Methodius Qu Ailin will be ordained bishop of Hunan this week, according to local Church sources. The 51-year-old priest has been approved by Pope Benedict XVI and recognized by the Chinese government, the sources said. The ceremony is … Continue reading
AsiaNews: Mgr Joseph Chen Guangao this morning was ordained bishop of Nanchong (Sichuan). The newly ordained prelate was approved by the Holy See in 2010, but had wanted to delay the ordination ceremony to ensure no excommunicated bishops participated. Instead, … Continue reading
AsiaNews: The Easter holiday will be “very discreetly” celebrated this year in unofficial (underground) communities in China. Many community leaders, bishops and priests, were in fact called in by the police for a “conversation” and even underwent weeks of indoctrination … Continue reading
UCANews: Bishop Joseph Ma Yinglin of Kunming, who remains unrecognized by the Vatican, presided over the ordination of six priests on Monday, despite warnings and criticism from within and outside China. More of this report here.
The pope created a new cardinal in China, the current acting Bishop of Hong Kong, John Tong Hon. Here is part of what he had to say in an interview with Asia News. www.Chiesa: On the occasion of his appointment, … Continue reading
CNA reports: Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong says the Vatican’s recent policy in dealing with China has failed and that the Church must now take a tougher stance. “On certain points we cannot compromise – on the nature … Continue reading
AsiaNews: A “prayer campaign” for the Church in China, “which is at the most difficult and decisive crossroads in its recent history” is the request that the PIME father Piero Gheddo and Angelo Lazzarotto have made to 530 cloistered convents … Continue reading
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