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Benedict Rogers: My journey into the Church and the plight of Christians in China
January 04, 2024
Heart, mind and soul. Ten years ago, I was received into the Catholic Church by Myanmar’s first-ever cardinal, Charles Bo, in St Mary’s Cathedral, Yangon, with Lord Alton of Liverpool as my sponsor and St Charles Borromeo as my patron saint. It is perhaps no coincidence that I write this just after launching the first
More kowtowing to China as senior state bishop visits Hong Kong as guest of Cardinal Chow
November 13, 2023
This week Beijing’s Archbishop Joseph Li Shan, who is President of China’s state-controlled Catholic body, the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA), visits Hong Kong for five days. This comes just a week after more than 10 Catholic bishops from around the world called for the release of Catholic pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai, who has been
The Sino-Vatican Pact isn’t working: so why does Cardinal Chow insist that it is?
October 01, 2023
This weekend should have been one of celebration for Hong Kong Catholics – the elevation of their new bishop to the rank of cardinal. The fact that the city now has three living cardinals – Cardinal Joseph Zen, Cardinal John Tong and now Cardinal Stephen Chow – is remarkable, and a sign of how much
China Incorporated: The Politics of a World where China is Number One, by Kerry Brown
September 29, 2023
Delusional defence of Beijing. China Incorporated: The Politics of a World where China is Number One Kerry Brown Bloomsbury, £20, 208 pages In an October 1939 radio address, Winston Churchill described Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”. I would not necessarily use those words to describe China today, but I would
Soiled hearts and bloodied fingers
December 02, 2022
The moral cost of the Sino-Vatican pact is far too great, argues Benedict Rogers
The moral cost of the Sino-Vatican pact is far too great
November 03, 2022
The credibility and moral authority of the Church is in serious danger, writes Benedict Rogers Eight years ago, I wrote an article for the Catholic Herald in which I warned that an agreement between the Vatican and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would be “a dangerous gamble”. Two years after that article, the Vatican signed its secret agreement
The arrest of Cardinal Zen: A new low for China’s ‘brutal’ Communist regime
May 12, 2022
Arresting a 90 year-old Cardinal marks a new low for a Chinese Communist Party regime that had already sunk to shocking levels of inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty and mendacity. Cardinal Joseph Zen is, as the last Governor of Hong Kong Lord Patten said yesterday, “one of the most important figures in the Catholic Church in Asia
Hong Kong faces an epic battle to defend its freedoms
June 12, 2020
Almost 23 years ago, Hong Kong was handed over to China with the promise of a “high degree of autonomy”, basic freedoms and the possibility of universal suffrage at some stage in the future. It was an experiment devised by China’s paramount leader Deng Xiaoping known as “one country, two systems”, and was supposed to
The cardinal’s clandestine Mass: how Lithuania survived totalitarianism
March 12, 2020
Just outside Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city, on a hillside in a residential area stands a house belonging to the family of Vytautas Andziulis and his wife, Birutė. For 10 years during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania this couple, together with Juozas Bacevičius, ran a secret printing press that published 23 titles and 138,000 copies – dissident
Democracy is in retreat – but heroic activists are emerging
December 19, 2019
Jesus Christ was a refugee who grew up to become a dissident. Of course He is much more than that – He is God Incarnate, Emmanuel – but as we approach the Nativity and see images of a baby lying in a manger, let us not forget the rest of the story. And as we
How books kept a broken nation’s soul alive
October 31, 2019
Syria’s Secret Library By Mike Thomson Weidenfeld, 320pp, £18.99/$28 It was because of my love of books as well as my passion for human rights and humanitarian causes that I picked up Syria’s Secret Library: The True Story of How a Besieged Syrian Town Found Hope. It is one of most moving and inspiring books
Beijing knows it is losing the battle of ideas over Hong Kong
September 12, 2019
Almost exactly a year ago, the Holy See and the Chinese government signed an agreement on the appointment of bishops designed to “normalise” relations and – at least in the mind of the Vatican – enhance protection for China’s 10 million Catholics. A year on, where are we? Well, there has been no tangible sign
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