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Shanghai, China, Aug 10, 2017 / 05:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A cardinal who helped change Catholic missionary work in China is now a possible candidate for beatification. Cardinal Celso Costantini became the first apostolic delegate to China in 1922.The situation in China was particularly complex in the wake of European colonialism and the end of the opium trade. Christian missionaries were suspected of being foreign agents. Tens of thousands of Christian civilians, predominantly Chinese Catholics, were killed in the Boxer Rebellion of 1899-1901.For its part, France considered the Catholic missions in the land to be under its direct protection, despite its recently approved constitution rigidly separating Church and State.Then-Bishop Costantini was called not only to navigate the complex political situation, but also to work for a change in the mentality with which the missionary work was being carried out. His appointment to China came not long after Pope Benedict XV’...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Diplomacy and political engagement are necessary to resolve thedifferences between the United States and North Korea and avoid a militaryconflict, the chairman of a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops committee saidin a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.WritingAug. 10, Bishop Oscar Cantu ofLas Cruces, New Mexico, chairman of the bishops' Committee on InternationalJustice and Peace, echoed a recent call from the Korean bishops'conference to support talks to secure the peaceful future of the Korean Peninsula.BishopCantu acknowledged that the escalating threat of violence from North Korea'sleaders cannot be "underestimated or ignored," but that the"high certainty of catastrophic death and destruction from any militaryaction must prompt the United States to work with others in the internationalcommunity for a diplomatic and political solution based on dialogue."Theletter follows days of back-and-forth threats b...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- An emerging debate about whether elected officials violate people's free speech rights by blocking them on social media is spreading across the U.S. as groups sue or warn politicians to stop the practice....
DENVER (AP) -- A defiant and occasionally exasperated Taylor Swift insisted during a whirlwind hour of testimony Thursday that a Denver disc jockey grabbed her bare backside and held on for a long time during a meet-and-greet before a concert....
NEW YORK (AP) -- CNN fired conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord on Thursday after he tweeted a Nazi salute at a critic....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last year's global weather was far more extreme or record breaking than anything approaching normal, according to a new report....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump escalated a stunning feud against his top Senate partner Thursday, suggesting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might have to think about stepping aside if he doesn't deliver on the president's agenda of health care, taxes and infrastructure....
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) -- Not backing down, President Donald Trump warned Kim Jong Un's government on Thursday to "get their act together" or face extraordinary trouble, and suggested his earlier threat to unleash "fire and fury" on North Korea was too mild....
Vatican City, Aug 10, 2017 / 10:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis is cracking down on a Belgian Brothers of Charity-run organization, giving the group until the end of August to stop offering euthanasia to patients in their psychiatric centers.In addition, each of the religious brothers serving on the board of the Brothers of Charity Group, the organization that runs the centers, has been ordered to sign a joint letter to their general superior, Br. Rene Stockman, declaring their adherence to Church teaching.Brothers who refuse to sign the letter will face punitive action under canon law, while the group itself is expected to face legal action and could have its Catholic status revoked if it does not change its policy.The Vatican order, sent at the beginning of August, follows several prior requests that the group drop the policy, which allows doctors to euthanize non-terminal mentally ill patients on its grounds.In comments to CNA Aug. 10, Br. Stockman said he initially went to ...
Caracas, Venezuela, Aug 10, 2017 / 10:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas expressed Tuesday his “astonishment and rejection” of a series of measures that violate the “will of the sovereign people” in Venezuela.In an Aug. 8 statement, the cardinal denounced the eviction of the country's legislature, the National Assembly, from the Federal Legislative Palace. The action was taken so that the constituent assembly, tasked with rewriting the constitution, could meet in the building.“This is a measure astonishing for its violence and arbitrariness,” Cardinal Urosa said, adding that it “violates the will of the people who sovereignly elected the National Assembly in the December 2015 elections.”The National Assembly is controlled by the opposition, while the constituent assembly was elected July 30 in a process that has been denounced as fraudulent by bishops, much of the international community, and the company...
