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...Many of the city’s leading democrats are Catholic, including media mogul Jimmy Lai, who is on trial for alleged national security crimes, barrister Martin Lee and Joseph Zen, former bishop of Hong Kong....
...But the arrest on Wednesday of Cardinal Joseph Zen has sent new shockwaves through the city just days after hardliner and former security chief John Lee, himself a Catholic, was confirmed as its next leader...
...Eight-metre-high portraits of the Opus Dei founder hung from the balustrades of St Peter’s Basilica as the Pope officiated from an open-air altar....
...He chose his papal name partly in honour of St Benedict, the 5th-century founder of the Benedictine order of monks that helped spread the Christian message across Europe....
...Branding turns a section of an inconveniently chaotic city into one, simple, saleable idea....
...But its lease with the St Mary Moorfields Trust, a charity run by the Diocese of Westminster, expired last week....
...“Because President Biden is Catholic, it presents a unique problem for us,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City recently told the Associated Press. “It can create confusion . . ....
...His logical replacement for many Catholics would have been the auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, Joseph Ha Chi-shing....
...Recently, the diocese of London has been aiming to open churches, not close them....
...When the Catholic church was in its prime in Ireland thousands of priests trained at Holy Cross college in central Dublin, the city’s major seminary for more than a century....
...Staff at Kalayaan, based in the community hall of a Roman Catholic church close to St John’s, quickly sought a “reasonable grounds” decision to enter her into the NRM....
...But St Luke’s also illustrates the influence of a handful of big, evangelical congregations within the diocese. Rev Dix arrived in Millwall with 20 other people from St Paul’s, in nearby Shadwell....
...Presidents of the Boston, St Louis and Chicago Federal Reserves are also due to give speeches today....
...“Belfast has been historically a divided city,” says Joseph O’Donnell, director of the Belfast Interface Project, an organisation working to transform the walls....
...Guo Xijin, a bishop in the eastern province of Fujian, denied reports in Catholic media that he had been “kidnapped”, but confirmed he was taken to the nearby city of Xiamen for three days last week under...
...There are 19 active “underground” bishops and 58 official bishops, not counting those who have retired, according to the Holy Spirit Study Center, which is part of the Catholic diocese of Hong Kong....
...Earlier this month, William Taylor, rector of St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, in the City of London, said that his prominent evangelical congregation was withdrawing from some co-operation with neighbouring churches...
...Why The chapel has stained-glass windows and ecclesiastical arches, and was built as part of St Joseph’s college for Catholic priests....
...Few of the people waving flags at a pro-government rally in central Kinshasa last week could explain why they supported President Joseph Kabila. “Er, he’s good for the country. How can I describe it?”...
...The Spanish city of Zaragoza traces its Christian heritage back to the year 40AD when the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to St James the Apostle on the banks of the river Ebro....
...Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, by Bettany Hughes, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£25 A historian and broadcaster tells the story of one of the world’s great cities through its Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman...
...A barbecue smoker on the back of a trailer releases fragrant plumes of hickory smoke into the night air. It is St Joseph’s Night and the procession is about to begin....
...On a sunny day, the calm scene is unexpected after the swell of tourists and pilgrims beyond the confines of the world’s smallest city state....
...Their success has helped raise hopes of further growth in the Diocese of London....
...he found his posting “almost as irksome as the rocks of St Helena to Napoleon”....
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