Politics

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - In an unprecedented turn of events, Pope Leo XIV has capitulated to China’s decision to abolish two historic dioceses established by Pope Pius XII and to recognize, in their stead, a new diocese instituted unilaterally by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... On September 10, the Holy See Press Office announced that Leo had agreed to the suppression of the dioceses of Xuanhua and Xiwanzi, created in 1946, to “promote the pastoral care of the Lord’s flock and to attend more effectively to its spiritual good.”... The Vatican revealed that Leo had also approved the CCP-created diocese of Zhangjiakou in place of the dioceses of Xuanhua and Xiwanzi, an ecclesiastical fabrication of the state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA), also known as the Patriotic Church.

By Katholisch.de - Following a funeral mass for the murdered right-wing nationalist US activist Charlie Kirk, Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka has been criticised. According to Radio Prague's English service, a number of Catholics and non-Catholics criticised Duka for organising a service for the controversial political activist in the first place... Demonstrators outside the church had labelled Kirk a "fascist, racist and sexist". Honouring such people is wrong. Others had criticised the service as an act with an inappropriate political dimension.