Abstract/Sommario: News Updated: Ordination of 2 new bishops; Deaths of Bishops; General information, month by month; with an Estimated Statistics for China's Catholic Church, made by the Holy Spirit Study Centre (December 2008): Number of Catholics: 5,300,000 -official number-; 12 millions -estimated-; Number of churches and chapels :more than 6,000. Church's dioceses or ecclesiastical territories: Traditional number: 138; Official number: 97. Number of bishops: Official: 58; Unofficial: 42. Number o ...; [Leggi tutto...]
News Updated: Ordination of 2 new bishops; Deaths of Bishops; General information, month by month; with an Estimated Statistics for China's Catholic Church, made by the Holy Spirit Study Centre (December 2008): Number of Catholics: 5,300,000 -official number-; 12 millions -estimated-; Number of churches and chapels :more than 6,000. Church's dioceses or ecclesiastical territories: Traditional number: 138; Official number: 97. Number of bishops: Official: 58; Unofficial: 42. Number of priests: ca. 3,010. Official: 1,850; Unofficial. 1,160. Number of Sisters: 4,750; in the Open Church: 3,500, In the Underground Church: 1,250. Number of major and Minor seminaries: about 34 with 1160 seminarians; Underground Seminaries: 10 with ca. 350 seminarians. Number of Sisters' Novitiates: 60
Abstract/Sommario: The special issue of Tripod is dedicated to the life and times of China's first Republican Foreign Minister, turned Benedictine monk, Lou Tseng-Tsiang. Described as a gentleman, with refined speech and mild manner, Lou Tseng-Tsiang's courage came to the fore when China's territorial integrity was at risk of being destroyed at the Versailles Peace Treaty, 1919. Gli articoli: A Christian Confucian / Jean Pierre Charbonnier (The A. describes how Lou Tseng-tsiang got interested in cathol ...; [Leggi tutto...]
The special issue of Tripod is dedicated to the life and times of China's first Republican Foreign Minister, turned Benedictine monk, Lou Tseng-Tsiang. Described as a gentleman, with refined speech and mild manner, Lou Tseng-Tsiang's courage came to the fore when China's territorial integrity was at risk of being destroyed at the Versailles Peace Treaty, 1919. Gli articoli: A Christian Confucian / Jean Pierre Charbonnier (The A. describes how Lou Tseng-tsiang got interested in catholicism, as we can read in his spiritual autobiography publishe a year before his death, which occurred in 1945 at the Abbey of Saint-André-Iez-Bruges in Belium. His father had been catechist for the London Misisonary Society and gave him a love for the Bible and for 'improving literature'. In 1899, while he was in St Petersburg as interpreter at the Chinese Legation he married a young Belgian woman in 1899. His conversion dates in 1912. He covered important role as minister plenipotentiary at The Hague, and he represented China at Versailles Peace Conference in 1919. At his wife's death in 1926 he decided to become a benedictine monk and joined the Abbey of Sr. André-Les-Bruges in Belgium. His writings have a liberating Gospel message for China: they show how the Confucian values of filial piety finds its complete fulfilment in Jesus Christ. In hte midst of the world's disorder, Dom Lu discovered the true 'encounter of humanities' by neditating on the Gospel of St John, as translated by his friend John Wu (Wu Jingxiong)