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...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....
...He says his academic work has compared Catholics and communists. “The form is all the same. But communists believe you can try to do it on earth, and Catholics say you have to wait until afterwards....
...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....
...For years he fought to stabilise his relationship with this complicated, wealthy Catholic, the wife of Ernest Hoschedé — his chief collector — a spendthrift bankrupted because he had bought too many Monets...
...“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....
...In 1610, Henri IV of France was assassinated by a Catholic fanatic, which threatened to reignite the French Wars of Religion....
...But its lease with the St Mary Moorfields Trust, a charity run by the Diocese of Westminster, expired last week....
...He is a life-long Catholic, though he didn’t talk about it in the early part of his career: “I guess because it was so uncool . . . let’s be real....
...Evangelicals, Catholics and other conservative religious denominations worked together to form the infrastructure of the backlash....
...Putting Jackson on the court is unlikely to alter their views or the balance of power....
...Neither Counter Terrorism Policing North West nor the Diocese of Liverpool immediately responded to requests to comment on the reports....
...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....
...If Drew hadn’t discovered Jackson Pollock in the local library, he would probably be a star of comic illustration today....
...Gideon Rachman responds As you might expect, the reaction from many Europeans to the Dobbs vs Jackson decision was a mixture of bafflement and horror....
...in his diocese handled accusations of sexual abuse by priests....
...Public opinion favours the current law, with 70 per cent of US adults surveyed by Pew in 2019, and two-thirds of Catholics, saying they did not want to see Roe overturned....
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