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....
...Joseph Li, the state-appointed Catholic archbishop of Beijing, begins a five-day trip to Hong Kong....
...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....
...An Israeli sniper shot dead two Christian women sheltering in the Catholic Holy Family church in Gaza City on Saturday, said the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem....
...All across France, constituencies submitted so-called cahiers de doléance, or lists of grievances, as Catholic dioceses have done over the past year....
...Austin is, famously, one of the most important people in Mercury’s turbulent life, and also one of the least quoted....
...The city’s Catholic Diocese confirmed to the Financial Times that it would not hold commemorative masses for the second consecutive year....
...Sure enough, adult Michael informs us that Jack’s conduct in Africa (“going native”, the Catholic church calls it) has brought disapproval on the whole family....
...Portrait Milano, the Collection’s seventh hotel, is leased from the Catholic Church under a 30-year agreement....
...We digressed on the Communion of Saints, about which he considered a Catholic friend of mine in Paris to be Orthodox, not Catholic, and then we went out to admire the pink-flowered Harlow Carr being grown...
...“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....
...When Northern Irish politician Austin Currie smashed a window to break into a council house in the village of Caledon in June 1968, he was making both trouble, and history....
...But its lease with the St Mary Moorfields Trust, a charity run by the Diocese of Westminster, expired last week....
...But they were also physical symbols of a history of colonisation and expropriation of land from the Catholic masses who made up the tenantry....
...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....
...Michael Collins (Catholic)....
...Austin....
...They’re both Catholics who mean to be good Catholics. So they thought that they were gonna go to the day of judgment in which they had to get an account of their lives....
...against 24 US Catholic dioceses....
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