The Vatican’s China accommodation serves Xi Jinping, not Chinese Catholics. Nina Shea National Review August 6, 2023 Original Article Pope Francis should see the writing on the wall and revise the Holy See’s China policy. There is no hiding that its five-year-old agreement with Beijing has served Chinese Communist Party interests, to the detriment of the Vatican’s…
Father Patrick Briscoe, O.P. OSV News August 3, 2023 Original Article World Youth Day (WYD) brings together young people from every corner of the globe to celebrate their Catholic faith. Away from home and buoyed by the witness of their peers, it becomes possible for many to have a transforming encounter with Jesus Christ. But…
Hannah Brockhaus Catholic News Agency Aug 3, 2023 Original Article “When you preach the real Christ, not a watered-down Christ, it lights a fire in people,” Bishop Robert Barron said to applause from tens of thousands of young people at a World Youth Day gathering in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday evening. The event, hosted by…
The complainant claims that the bans on worship are “illiberal and anti-democratic.” Zenit Staff July 31, 2023 Original Article (ZENIT News / Strasbourg, 07.31.2023).- Are blanket bans on public worship compatible with the international human right to the communal exercise of religious freedom? This is the question brought by former EU Special Envoy for Freedom of…
Christocentrism is what has inspired millions of the young Catholics who have attended World Youth Days since 1984 to be the missionary disciples they were baptized to be… George Weigel National Catholic Register July 26, 2023 Original article In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new Portuguese edition of my Letters to…
