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Pope Francis called on believers worldwide to pray for Christians in China as they celebrate on May 24 the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians and patroness of their “great country.”
He issued his call from his study window in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on May 23, the eve of that feast, after celebrating Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the feast of Pentecost.
In his message, he recalled that “The Mother of the Lord and of the Church is venerated with particular devotion in the Sheshan Shrine in Shanghai, and is invoked assiduously by Christian families, in the trials and hopes of daily life.”
Catholics in mainland China have the tradition of making a pilgrimage every year to pray at the Sheshan Shrine, the country’s most famous Marian shrine, especially around May 24, but in recent years the authorities have placed many obstacles to this pilgrimage and this year they have prevented any visit there during the month of May citing the coronavirus pandemic,even though amusement parks in the area are open at this same time.
Without mentioning that problem, Pope Francis said, “how good and how necessary it is that the members of a family and of a Christian community are ever more united in love and in faith! In this way, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, pastors and faithful can follow the example of the first disciples who, on the solemnity of Pentecost, were united in prayer with Mary as they awaited the Holy Spirit.”
His encouragement to families and members of the Christian community “to be united in love and in faith” and “in prayer” comes at a particularly difficult time for believers in the mainland. Regulations currently enforced by the Chinese authorities prohibit parents from bringing their children under the age of 18 to church or having them participate in any public events linked to the church or religion.
While May 24 has been celebrated with prayer for and with the church in China every year since 2008, one year after Pope Benedict XVI released his letter to the church in China, Francis’ message on Sunday comes at the end of a week in which a number of troubling news reports reached the Vatican.
One report published by AsiaNews revealed that on May 21, Bishop Zhang Weizhu was arrested and the previous day, May 20, seven priests and 10 seminarians—all from the “underground” church community—were arrested at a small factory owned by a Catholic and used as a seminary in Shaheqiao, Hebei province in the ecclesiastical province of Xinxiang. The owner of the factory was also arrested, and the factory was closed.
Pope Francis addressing Christians worldwide today said: “I invite you to accompany with fervid prayer the Christian faithful in China, our dearest brothers and sisters, whom I hold in the depth of my heart.”
He concluded by praying, “May the Holy Spirit, protagonist of the Church’s mission in the world, guide them and help them to be bearers of the happy message, witnesses of goodness and charity, and builders of justice and peace in their country.”
Chinese Christianity is different than traditional European or American Christianity in that women are usually the leaders in the churches and groups.Women are usually the majority at house church meetings or Three Self Church services. Chinese Christianity tends to be Pentecostal. This means that they regularly pray for miracles and believe in miraculous “gifts of the Spirit.” The house churches of educated and wealthy Chinese tend to be service-oriented and mindful or global issues and problems. For example, after the big earthquake in Sichuan in 2008, many house churches funded volunteers who went to rescue victims and finance their rebuilding efforts.
Biden’s Asia czar says era of engagement with Xi’s China is over
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks in Macao in December 2019. | BLOOMBERG
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks in Macao in December 2019. | BLOOMBERG
BY PETER MARTIN
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May 27, 2021
The U.S. is entering a period of intense competition with China as the government running the world’s second-biggest economy becomes ever more tightly controlled by President Xi Jinping, the White House’s top official for Asia said Wednesday.
“The period that was broadly described as engagement has come to an end,” Kurt Campbell, the U.S. coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs on the National Security Council, said at an event hosted by Stanford University. U.S. policy toward China will now operate under a “new set of strategic parameters,” Campbell said, adding that “the dominant paradigm is going to be competition.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/05/27/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/biden-china-czar-engagement/
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Canadian National to divest Kansas City Southern's 70-mile rail overlap
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A freight train of the Kansas City Southern (KCS) Railway Company is pictured in Toluca, Mexico October 1, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/File Photo
A freight train of the Kansas City Southern (KCS) Railway Company is pictured in Toluca, Mexico October 1, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/File Photo
Canadian National Railway (CNR.TO) said on Wednesday it would divest Kansas City Southern's (KSU.N) 70-mile rail line between New Orleans and Baton Rouge to eliminate the only overlap between the two railroad operators.
The line is less than 0.7% of the about 27,000 route-miles the two companies operate, the Canadian operator said.
"Our early commitment to eliminating the minimal rail overlap and to laying out the case for a CN-KCS combination should allow the STB (Surface Transportation Board) to approve our voting trust," Canadian National Chief Executive Officer Jean-Jacques Ruest said.
"A trust is an essential step so KCS shareholders can receive the full value of their shares."
Canadian National and Kansas City said they have together filed a renewed motion for approval of their voting trust with the STB to advance the merger deal.
The U.S. railroad earlier this month accepted Canadian National's $33.6 billion offer, upending a $29 billion deal with its competitor Canadian Pacific (CP.TO), and last week reiterated that Canadian National Railway's offer was "superior." read more
The deal will create the first railway spanning the United States, Mexico and Canada, as the companies stand to benefit from a recent pick up in trade.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò congratulates then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick at a gala dinner in New York in 2012.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò congratulates then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick at a gala dinner in New York in 2012.CNS photo/Michael Rogel, PMS
Charles Lewis: Allegations lead us down dangerous path
BY CHARLES LEWIS
November 25, 2020
The acceptance of serious allegations swallowed up without proof is an age-old problem. It is also dangerous.
The Jews were alleged to have caused the plague in the Middle Ages — even though Jews were dying like everyone else — so Jews were expelled or even killed. In the late 19th century there began a widespread belief in the United States that Catholicism was a dangerous fifth column taking orders from the pope. Catholics were lynched in riots because of these stupid allegations.
The Roman Catholic Church has not been immune from wallowing in dubious rumours. In 2018 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò alleged that Pope Francis purposely ignored information that he provided that accused Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was a depraved sexual predator. Viganò claimed he had told Francis five years earlier in a 2013 letter. That was his evidence. Viganò then called on Francis to resign.
For those who disliked Francis it was red meat, more proof Francis was unfit to be the Vicar of Christ.
Nowhere did he lay blame on St. Pope John Paul II or Pope Benedict who we now know were both aware of reports of McCarrick’s crimes. That struck me as incredibly unfair and reeked of some personal vendetta that Viganò had against Francis.
In 2018, we knew that in either 2009 or 2010 Pope Benedict XVI had put sanctions on McCarrick when it became clear McCarrick was a predator. It is also clear that somehow Benedict did not see McCarrick was ignoring those sanctions.
This is what I wrote in 2018 in The Catholic Register: “Did no one notice that before Francis became Pope, McCarrick was not acting like as a man under sanctions? Were the sanctions secret? Is it common for someone who has been sanctioned, ordered to a life of prayer and penance, to continue in their duties as if nothing happened?
“If Viganò was so worried about an abuser occupying a senior role in the American Church, why did he wait (five years) to make his allegations public?”
Two years ago The New York Times reported what seemed to me the most devastating rebuke of Viganò’s charges and his credibility.
“At a gala dinner in the luxury Pierre Hotel in Manhattan in 2012, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Pope Benedict’s top diplomat in the United States, bestowed an award for missionary service on Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and praised him as ‘very much loved from us all.’ ”
The Times asked that if Viganò knew McCarrick was under sanctions why did he praise McCarrick at a public event?
The Times referred in its story to reporting by LifeSiteNews, which quoted Viganò as saying he attended the dinner because he could not back out.
A Vatican report released this month shows the terrible missteps that occurred. Most painful of all is that John Paul II in 2001 made McCarrick a cardinal and installed him as Archbishop of Washington, D.C., despite warnings from the late Cardinal John O’Connor of New York.
O’Connor wrote “with deep regret” that there were reasons for believing that rumours and allegations about the past might surface with such an appointment, with the possibility of accompanying grave scandal and widespread adverse publicity.”
He added that “while charity must prevail and the benefit of the doubt always given to the ‘accused,’ the good of souls and the reputation of the Church must be seriously considered and the potential for scandal given equally serious consideration.”
John Paul II decided to let the rumours pass, believing his friend could never do something so heinous. Everyone, even a great pope, can have a blind spot.
As for Pope Francis? He apparently thought that since his predecessor had approved of McCarrick’s promotion the issue had been settled. But in 2017, when a new report of McCarrick’s crimes came to light, Francis removed him from the College of Cardinal and later laicized him.
It would be trite to say the Vatican report put an end to another ugly chapter in our Church’s history.
For those who were the victims of McCarrick and the Vatican’s inability to deal with a grotesque sexual deviant no report will end their scars. That would be too easy.
(Lewis is a Toronto writer and regular contributor to The Register.)