Shanghai Scrap brought us an interesting tidbit over the weekend on the results of the Pope's landmark letter to Chinese Catholics released a year ago on June 30, 2007. The Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) reports that the Pope's call for... ...full story at Shanghaiist
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| 30 May 08 |
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Rome prays for China »
YouTube video The call issued in Benedict XVI's letter to Chinese Catholics for a Day of Prayer for China was answered in Rome, and the Pontifical Urbanianum University held the first meeting of Catholics of Sino-Italian descent.
The Coordinator of the Italian... |
| 18 Jul 08 |
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The Underground Grotto and the Papal Letter. » Shanghai Scrap Yesterday UCAN posted an excellent article on what it characterizes as some of the “positive results,” one year on, produced by the Pope’s landmark Letter to Chinese Catholics, released on June 30, 2007. Unlike most reporting on the... |
| 04 Jul 07 |
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Reactions from the Pope's letter » Shanghaiist Several reactions have come in from the Pope's letter to Chinese believers. Adam Minter, who has written extensively on Chinese Catholicism, filed in his thoughts a few hours after the letter was released: I don’t want to dwell too much on the letter... |
| 01 Jul 07 |
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Pope says ni hao to Chinese Catholics » Shanghaiist In a very unusual letter (English translation here) addressed to the "bishops, priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful" in mainland China, Pope Benedict XVI (and he's got a cool Chinese name too - 教宗本笃十六世) has openly hoped for a renewa... |
| 18 Jul 07 |
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A new bishop for Beijing? » Shanghaiist It has been three weeks since Pope Benedict XVI issued his first letter to mainland Chinese Catholics which stirred up a wide range of sentiments, and since then observers have been eagerly watching for the first signs of Beijing's response to the... |
| 06 Aug 08 |
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Olympic Ecumenicalism, Chinese-style » Shanghai Scrap Bet this hasn’t happened anywhere else. From UCAN: In mid-July, all parish priests and Catholic volunteers in Beijing joined workers of other religions to practice terrorist prevention at a local mosque. [Shanghai Scrap will offer a reward -... |
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