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March 23, 2018

China's Communist Party overhaul includes religious affairs control

A man prays during a 2017 Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing.

HONG KONG – China's ruling Communist Party has further stepped up control over all religions, dissolving its long-standing State Administration for Religious Affairs bureau and handing its functions to the party's United Front Work Department.

Published in International
November 7, 2016

Ordination without papal mandate is serious violation, says Vatican on rumours of new bishops in China

Chinese Catholic priests baptize new believers during a 2013 Easter Vigil in a church in Shenyang, China. The Vatican put out a statement, amidst rumours of new bishops secretly ordinated in China, that ordination of bishops without the papal mandate is a serioius violation of church law.

VATICAN CITY – No matter what the motivation or how seriously threatened one may believe the Catholic Church in China is, the ordination of bishops without a mandate from the pope is a serious violation of church law, the Vatican said.

Published in International