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China and Vatican: “sinicization” is not inculturation

A true inculturation of the Gospel in China would call China and the despotic regime that currently controls it to conversion. “Sinicization,” by contrast, is a call to the kowtow, to obsequious acquiescence to the regime’s program of social control, which is essentially a refinement of what George Orwell described in the dystopian novel 1984

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The planet has a fever and is in bad shape: Pope Francis asks to pray for the care of the planet

In The Pope Video for September, Pope Francis invites us to pray for the care of the plant and to listen to “hear the pain of the millions of victims of environmental catastrophes.” In his video message, the Pope emphasizes that “the ones suffering most from the consequences of natural disasters are the poor,” and that it is necessary to “commit ourselves to the fight against poverty and the protection of nature.” The Earth “has a fever. It is sick,” Pope Francis says, and he asks for “responses that are not only ecological, but are also social, economic and political.”

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Communist China recognizes 94-year-old Catholic bishop Melchiorre Shi Honghzen

In the latest development of the Agreement between China and the Holy See, authortities recognise the ‘underground’ prelate long under arrest for refusing to join the Patriotic Association as leader of the local Catholic community. Archbishop Celli had met him two years ago and presented him with a pectoral cross in the name of Francis. Today’s ceremony was held in a hotel and not in the cathedral to reaffirm aappointment’s civil rather than canonical character.