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Analysis Opinion•Local Church

A ‘Divided Church’: the difficult story of Bishop Jin and Shanghai Catholics

A new book by historian Paul Mariani traces the life of the Catholic community of Shanghai during the years when it was led by the Jesuit prelate, «illegitimately» ordained in 1985, a complex figure who, under difficult circumstances, sought in his own way to maintain a balance between Beijing and Rome. It is an interesting read not only about the past of the Church in China but also about what is going on today.

Analysis Opinion•Religious Freedom

These are the Catholic groups attacked in a report sponsored by Bill Gates and Soros simply for defending what they believe in

Critics from across Europe’s faith-based institutions have been quick to respond. They insist that defending unborn life, upholding the natural family, or supporting ethical alternatives to controversial sexual education are not signs of extremism but expressions of moral conscience. And they warn that if such voices are excluded from the democratic conversation, the result will not be harmony—but deeper polarization.

Analysis Opinion

The perils of polarization

The post-communist Catholic leadership of Poland has also made its share of blunders, fueling the fears of the secular left that a publicly engaged Polish Catholicism would create something like Franco’s authoritarian Spain