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Pope’s ‘foreign policy’ Easter message: What got included, what got left out

March 31, 2024

ROME – A pope’s Easter Sunday Urbi et Orbi blessing, meaning “to the city and the world,” is generally understood to be one of his premier foreign policy statements of the year, a sort of 365-degree review of the global situation. Which issues and hotspots a pontiff chooses to highlight, therefore – and, equally, which he chooses

Chinese mainland gets bishop for first ‘new Catholic diocese’ since communist revolution

January 30, 2024

ROME – The state-sanctioned Catholic church in China has seen a new bishop’s appointment made alongside the establishment of a new diocese on the mainland for the first time since Mao’s Communist revolution. On 29 January, the Vatican confirmed that Bishop Anthony Sun Venjun, 53, had been appointed to lead the Diocese of Weifang that

Beijing bishop stresses ‘Sinicization’ of faith in visit to Hong Kong

November 21, 2023

DENVER – During a recent visit to Hong Kong, Beijing Archbishop Li Shan stressed the need to more closely combine the Catholic faith and Chinese culture, saying the Church ought to pursue evangelisation efforts in the spirit of “Sinicization”. In opening remarks for a theological conference in Hong Kong titled, “The Synodal Church and the

Head of China’s government-backed bishops’ body visits Hong Kong

November 15, 2023

ROME –Bishop Li Shan of Beijing, who leads the government-sponsored bishops’ conference in China, began a five-day visit to Hong Kong this week intended to strengthen ties between the two churches and to facilitate stronger communication between the Holy See and mainland China. According to the Sunday Examiner, the official news platform of the Diocese of

Pope’s Ukraine envoy to meet Chinese premier on Wednesday

September 12, 2023

ROME – An Italian newspaper reported Tuesday morning that Pope Francis’s personal envoy for the conflict in Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, will depart today for Beijing, where he is expected to meet Premier Li Qiang, considered China’s second most important official after President Xi Jinping. Zuppi’s trip to Beijing has been widely anticipated, coming after

Will Pope Francis meet Xi Jinping in Kazakhstan?

September 09, 2022

Speculation is growing that the leader of the Catholic Church could meet the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Kazakhstan next week. Xi Jinping will be in the country’s capital on the same day as Pope Francis, who is traveling to the Central Asian state for an interfaith summit, where it was speculated

How can the Pope justify this?

September 05, 2022

As Taiwan honours Pope John Paul I, Vatican cosies up to China

Pope Francis should speak up for Taiwan

August 04, 2022

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