Hints and tips:
...Of Hong Kong’s 7.5mn population, roughly 392,000 are Catholic and 268 are priests, according to the diocese....
...He would soon make Opus Dei a “personal prelature”, the only one of its kind in the Church. Like a diocese, the organisation was composed of lay people and clergy and would be led by a bishop....
...The diocese said the administrator had resigned of their own accord....
...Tellingly, she has recently been appointed Director of Ministry for the whole Diocese of Blackburn. Clearly the higher-ups think there might be something in the app after all....
...The appointment in Shanghai, one of the oldest and most prosperous Catholic dioceses, is a further blow....
...The visit, which follows an invitation last year from his counterpart in the Chinese capital, comes after Beijing this month unilaterally appointed a new bishop in Shanghai, one of China’s biggest dioceses...
...“Figures,” he went on, “that are burdened with a large element of uncertainty, as well as of the grotesque, are disturbing to pious souls.” But Corita was receiving validation from beyond the diocese....
...All across France, constituencies submitted so-called cahiers de doléance, or lists of grievances, as Catholic dioceses have done over the past year....
...The city’s Catholic Diocese confirmed to the Financial Times that it would not hold commemorative masses for the second consecutive year....
...Portrait Milano, the Collection’s seventh hotel, is leased from the Catholic Church under a 30-year agreement....
...“I’m concerned that the tax cuts put forward today will not help people in communities in need in towns like Bury,” said Patrick O’Dowd, director of the charity Caritas, run by the Roman Catholic diocese...
...At a morning mass in Kowloon on Saturday, about 30 people prayed for those “who died for justice” despite the Catholic diocese cancelling services to mark the massacre....
...But its lease with the St Mary Moorfields Trust, a charity run by the Diocese of Westminster, expired last week....
...The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Manila suspended masses for at least three weeks at the weekend as a result of rising coronavirus cases in the Philippines capital....
...in his diocese handled accusations of sexual abuse by priests....
...against 24 US Catholic dioceses....
...In the bankruptcies of utility PG&E, various opioid manufacturers and several Catholic church dioceses, bankruptcy was used to settle ruinous personal damages claims....
...The case before the Supreme Court was brought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two Orthodox Jewish congregations....
...His logical replacement for many Catholics would have been the auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, Joseph Ha Chi-shing....
...Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, a fundraising group started by the Archbishop of Paris and the Diocese of Paris, estimated this month that 90 per cent of the donations that had been received had come from...
...With Dublin in the grip of a homelessness crisis, the diocese said the new homes built on site would include “social, affordable and private housing”....
...Recently, the diocese of London has been aiming to open churches, not close them....
...Both Singapore and Hong Kong Catholic dioceses have also suspended masses, with services being broadcast on the web....
...The Catholic Church, which represents about 50 per cent of the population in Butembo-Beni diocese, is one of the few institutions that has the confidence of local people....
...Father Larry, as his congregation calls him, is a smiling, unassuming man and head of the Filipino chaplaincy of the Church of England’s Diocese of London....
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