February 2012

Last Wednesday, we began our annual journey through Lent, with the traditional practice of receiving the ashes on our foreheads and wearing them for the day.

This simple rite is a public proclaimation of our relationship with God. Although many people may comment to you that you have dirt on your face, it is still an
opportunity for us to help them to understand why we wear the ashes in public.

Taipei (UCAN): Father Matteo Ricci’s legacy lives on to this day, Bishop Claudio Giuliodori, from the great 16th century Jesuit missionary’s hometown of Macerata, Italy, said.

Father Ricci is one of the most important founding figures of the Church in China.

Bishop Giuliodori was speaking at a meeting with leaders of the Taiwanese Church at the curia of the...

A flawed system is hard to fix. This was highlighted earlier this month when a dispute arose over pay structures in the Legislative Council (LegCo). While a suggestion by Cheung Man-kwong, from the Democratic Party, that members should be paid according to the hours they put in may make some sense, it at best reflects a structural dysfunction within the system.

Two factors seem to be out of sync with the nature of...

Hong Kong (UCAN): Catholic reaction in Hong Kong to the February remarks on China’s human rights record by vice president, Xi Jinping, was sceptical.

Xi’s official February 14 to 19 visit to the United States of America (US), took him to Washington DC; Muscatine, Iowa—where he stayed for two weeks in April 1985 as part of a Chinese delegation looking into farming technology; and finally to Los...