Alexander Chow’s pioneering book, Theosis, Sino-Christian Theology and the Second Chinese Enlightenment, provides a long-awaited scholarly discussion of theosis, or “divinization,” vis-à-vis the theological trends in the history Chinese Christianity. While not without some problematic […]
Another bishop on the minds of Chinese Catholics is James Su Zhimin, known for his piety and deep love for the Church, who was arrested in 1986 as a “counterrevolutionary.” Bishop Su was labelled as […]
Amidst weeks of tensions over the removal of church crosses in Zhejiang, China’s state officials have extended an olive branch to the Holy See by accommodating the Vatican’s wishes in the consecration of a new […]
After recalling that the Diocese of Spokane’s cathedral is the only cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, noting his devotion to Saint Vincent DePaul and the Miraculous Medal, and acknowledging his Lasallian education, Bishop […]
In 2013, Zhejiang’s government officials initiated a campaign of church destruction and cross removal that has resulted more than a year of intense confrontations and open displays of resistance between Chinese Christians and the Communist […]
On a bitterly cold Sunday morning in mid-December I approached the basilica church attached to the Dominican Priory in Krakow’s Old Quarter. The church and priory are named after the Most Holy Trinity, and upon […]
At 5:30 in the morning the Gothic chapel of St. Albert’s Dominican Priory in Oakland, California, is barely lit. White hoods cover the heads of young men praying silently before the Blessed Sacrament. Father Michael […]
Part 4, Resurrection “We should be glad and rejoice. As the Shanghai Catholic youths said: ‘We are greatly honored to have been born and lived at this important time.’” — Cardinal Kung Pin-mei, Sermon for […]
China’s Catholic community reeled recently as news spread that Beijing’s seminarians had boycotted their graduation ceremony, scheduled for late June. The decision was made after the seminarians discovered that the illegitimate – and excommunicated – […]
After the Opium War (1840-42) Britain and other Western powers forced China to legalize the opium trade; menacing British warships lined China’s shores as officials were forced to sign a series of one-sided agreements. China […]
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