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...CHOSEN. Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, 71, Archbishop of Genoa, as Pope Benedict XVI's next secretary of state; in the Vatican. A longtime aide to the current Pope, Cardinal Bertone will become the Vatican's de facto prime minister, replacing fellow Italian Angelo Cardinal Sodano in September...
...population. The decision by Beijing to appoint two bishops of its own appears to be a cynical attempt to increase the schism between the 4 million Chinese Catholics who worship through the state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the 8 million Chinese Catholics loyal to the Vatican. That is the last thing the Catholic Church needs as it tries to build bridges and protect those who are dedicated to its teachings from Beijing's power brokering and politicking. Mel Duignan Dublin
...prestige through improved diplomatic relations, it is prepared to flout ancient church law to assert its authority over all areas of the religious as well as the political life of its population. The decision by Beijing to appoint two bishops of its own while being fully aware of the Vatican's ultimate authority to do so appears to be a cynical attempt to increase the schism between the roughly 4 million Chinese Catholics who worship through the state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the 8 million Chinese Catholics loyal to the Vatican. That is the last thing the Catholic...
...population. The decision by Beijing to appoint two bishops of its own appears to be a cynical attempt to increase the schism between the roughly 4 million Chinese Catholics who worship through the state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the 8 million Chinese Catholics loyal to the Vatican. That is the last thing the Catholic Church needs as it tries to build bridges and protect those who are dedicated to its teachings from the power brokering and politicking of Beijing. MEL DUIGNAN Dublin...
...bishops happy with it? Almost certainly not. Did they have a choice? Well, at the beginning of this year they received an instruction from Cardinal Francis Arinze, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship, declaring it "not acceptable to maintain that people have become accustomed to a certain translation for the past 30 or 40 years" as a reason to reject the changes and noting that the Vatican had the right to impose a translation in any case. Despite this, until Thursday there was real speculation that the U.S. bishops - who, like their brethren globally, have chafed increasingly...