With the conclave to choose his successor looking less Eurocentric than ever, Pope Francis' intense pastoral and diplomatic ...

‘Nature poetry’—where the natural world itself is the main focus of interest and not just a background setting, however superbly describedfootnote 2 —was written in Western classical antiquity, as ...

Francis died without visiting China, but after having established a firm system to regularize the Church there ...

As the world rushed to pay tribute to Pope Francis following his death, the response has been comparatively muted in China – an officially atheist state with millions of Catholics whose ...

Most of China’s roughly 10 million Catholics attend officially sanctioned churches but a substantial minority belong to the so-called “underground church”, attending masses in unapproved ...

High-ranking heads of state and Catholic bishops in China have remained notably silent following the death of Pope Francis, while reactions from political and religious leaders across the globe ...

In 1951, newly communist China severed ties with the Holy See, forcing Catholics to choose between membership in the state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association or non-sanctioned churches ...

who spent many years serving in China and is credited as a pioneer in re-establishing dialogue between China and the Catholic world. Father Lazzarotto, a member of Milan-based Pontifical Institute for ...

Pope Francis’ demise at the age of 88 marks the end of a transformative era for the Catholic Church. As the first Jesuit and Latin American pope, Francis was known for his progressive views on ...

What he said to me was: you are right. And then he added: Xi Jinping is much more than a president of China – he sees himself as an emperor of China. With even greater powers than Mao Zedong ever had.

What he said to me was: you are right. And then he added: Xi Jinping is much more than a president of China – he sees himself as an emperor of China. With even greater powers than Mao Zedong ...