John Cardinal Tong Hon
Posted in Hong Kong Message from our bishop

Lenten message from our apostolic administrator

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, The Church is preparing to celebrate Lent, a…

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Sister Rosa Elena Pico, a member of the Missionaries of Mary Co-Redemptrix, with children from the indigenous community of Sarayaku, Ecuador, in September 2019. Photo: CNS
Posted in International The Americas Vatican

Don’t try to clericalise women in Amazon Church pope says

VATICAN (CNS): Pope Francis released Querida Amazonia, his postsynodal apostolic exhortation on the Amazon region,…

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A deacon prays in a chapel in Wijint, a village in the Peruvian Amazon, in August 2019. Photo: CNS/Reuters
Posted in International The Americas Vatican

No quick fix for priest shortage in Amazon region pope says

VATICAN (CNS): In his apostolic exhortation, Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazonia), which was released by the…

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A server wearing a protective mask delivers buns to a customer through a ramp from a restaurant counter at a store in Beijing on February 12. Photo: CNS/Reuters
Posted in China Features | Commentary

Lack of free speech cost lives in China’s virus crisis

Michael Sainsbury  The death of Wuhan ophthalmologist, Li Wenliang, on February 7 saw an unusually…

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Pope Francis meeting with nuncios from around the world at the Vatican on 13 June 2019. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media)
Posted in Vatican

Vatican diplomats-in-training to spend a year as missionaries

VATICAN (CNS): Adopting a suggestion made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope…

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