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...The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong said on Friday that the legislation would not “alter the confidential nature of Confession (Sacrament of Reconciliation) of the Church”....
...The diocese said the administrator had resigned of their own accord....
...“The situation is . . . stable, though apprehension remains,” the diocese said....
...I have now read two pieces advocating for doctrinal change in the Church of England (“Episcopalian lessons for the Church of England”, Opinion, February 25; and “Church of England ‘fulminators’ take note...
...This approach was recently described in the English diocese of Leicester as a “doom loop”, because ultimately it leads to church closures, whether actively planned or not....
...“The diocese of Shanghai is arguably the most challenging diocese in China, a test of the agreement between Rome and Beijing,” Gianni Criveller, a Catholic priest previously based in Hong Kong who is dean...
...This year’s scene in St Peter’s Square comes from the diocese of Rieti, not far from Rome, where St Francis of Assisi is believed to have created the first Nativity scene 800 years ago (see below)....
...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...
...Micon Metcalfe, chief financial officer at the Diocese of Westminster Academy Trust, a group of schools, said she was “very uncomfortable being asked to sign up for three years” with the IT provider....
...If instead of fulminating against the expression of conjugal intimacy in its various forms, the Church of England authorities looked towards its fruits they would likely meet Jesus’s approval....
...“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 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 city’s Catholic Diocese confirmed to the Financial Times that it would not hold commemorative masses for the second consecutive year....
...From dioceses across the world a torrent of reports has poured in....
...Synod Member for Exeter Diocese, Paignton, Devon, UK...
...He and Ferragamo won that, too, something Antonioli credits to their proposal’s “inclusivity, which they [the diocese] cared about....
...“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....
...He then tried to create a congregation among the large free black community in Philadelphia, but the local bishop told him that “I will receive you into this diocese on one condition: No negro priest can...
...Honesto Ongtioco, bishop of Cubao, asked the parishes in his diocese to hold masses virtually....
...But its lease with the St Mary Moorfields Trust, a charity run by the Diocese of Westminster, expired last week....
...Christ Church’s student representatives accused him of “trivialis[ing] the suffering of Nazi persecution”, and the Diocese of Oxford said the essay was “a misappropriation of the Holocaust”....
...A native of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Bravo, aged 51, moved to Rhode Island in the late 1980s to study and play on the tennis team at Brown University....
...Neither Counter Terrorism Policing North West nor the Diocese of Liverpool immediately responded to requests to comment on the reports....
...in his diocese handled accusations of sexual abuse by priests....
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