Wednesday’s Asian and Europen editions of The Wall Street Journal included a 300 word editorial [subscriber only] commenting upon a recent White House visit paid by Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong. The editorial correctly notes that this visit was not noted in China’s state media, and speculated that this was partly because the state…
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28 Pages, 7 Languages
That’s the latest on the Pope’s promised letter to China’s Catholics – at least, according to Korazym, a heretofore unknown (to me) Italian website that obtained its information from the Italian APcom Agency. My college Italian is rusty, and I’ll admit that I can’t find the original report on the APcom site, but given the…
Temple Streets
On Friday, what was supposed to be a leisurely walk through Hanoi’s old town, became an inadvertent tour of old Hanoi’s vast catalog of small Buddhist temples. Accompanied by a new friend from Luxembourg, we wandered the twisting maze of streets and alleys, each of which seemed to have a shrine hidden behind a gate.…
Unnecessary Martyrs
Last week I received an anonymous comment – submitted via this blog – suggesting that I take a look at a program called “Bibles Unbound†run by a ministry named “The Voice of the Martyrs.†According to its website, The Voice of the Martyrs is an inter-denominational organization that aids persecuted Christians worldwide. Bibles Unbound…
Catholic Tastes
Over the next few weeks I plan to post some additional material that I gathered in the course of reporting my profile of Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian of Shanghai in the current issue of the Atlantic. In either case, the coming weeks should be very interesting, indeed, for Chinese Catholicism, and for Beijing’s relationship with…