Sacked Chinese Bishop Peter Zhuang Jianjian, who is at the centre of the latest storm around the Holy See’s controversial talks with China’s communist government, has broken his silence on being called in to Beijing by Vatican diplomats. The confirmation of the...
Germany’s only Trappist monastery — which attempted to revert to the gruelling, pre-Vatican II monastic schedule and worshipped exclusively in the Tridentine Rite — is to be closed by the end of the year. The Vatican congregation that deals with religious orders said...
Susan Onyedika was born 22 years ago into a Catholic family in Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling commercial city. When she was a child, she took part in the Block Rosary Crusade (where an image of the Virgin Mary visits family homes), as well as catechism classes in her...
Chinese Catholics have reacted with shock to the news that the Vatican and China’s communist government intend to sign an agreement soon over the appointment of bishops. Under the agreement, the Vatican would be given a say in the appointment of bishops in...
Chinese Catholics in Manila Archdiocese will be allowed to eat meat on the first Friday of Lent on Feb. 16 as it coincides with Chinese New Year. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila has issued a circular granting dispensation from the Lenten discipline of abstinence...
