Luis Dufaur 
Vaticanist Andrea Tornielli has published on the Vatican Insider site a serious testimony about Padre Pio’s bilocation to the Hungarian dungeon where Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty was imprisoned in the fifties. The Hungarian anticommunist cardinal was a fierce adversary of the Vatican policy of detente toward Communist governments known as Ostpolitik. Here is … Read more
In a letter of support for Ukrainian military servicemen, Metropolitan Ihor (Voznyak) stressed that “we witness the coming of a new generation of heroes ready to sacrifice their lives and forget about comfort and calmness, who are the first to respond to the cry for help of their land”. “I am addressing … Read more
Journalist Julia Duin published in The Washington Times a summary of the essential dates of Western civilization selected by Diane Moczar, a specialist in medieval history at the Northern Virginia Community College. The list is found in Prof. Moczar’s book, Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know. She deplores the fact that Catholics … Read more
In Vietnam, the emptiness brought by atheistic communism is producing effects similar to those in China by attracting many souls to the Catholic Church. In Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon and the country’s largest city, 680,000 of its 9 million inhabitants are Catholic and their numbers are growing to the … Read more
After the communist government in Beijing threatened to take away the freedom of Hong Kong, Joseph Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun, the city’s Bishop Emeritus, reacted the way Catholics would like to see their bishops react in the face of blatant anti-Christianity. Indeed, addressing the communist government on the radio, the cardinal said: “You … Read more
In a book that caused a sensation, titled Journal d’un lâche [A Coward’s Diary], Tô Hai, a “founding father” of Vietnamese communism and famous composer in that country announced he had left the Communist Party, reported the site “Le Salon Beige”. On May 28, 2014 he described on his blog with a … Read more
BBC news business editor Robert Peston has analyzed how China’s economic slowdown can lead to a ‘third wave’ in the economic crisis that shook the world in 2008, G1 reported. The Chinese city of Wuhan is a case in point: it grew more than any other city in China over the last … Read more
Hazardous chemicals have been detected in clothes for children made in China and sold by big Western brands such as Disney, Burberry and Adidas. This is the verdict rendered by the environmental organization Greenpeace after it submitted 82 items of 12 brands for analysis and found harmful chemicals in every one of … Read more
As happens every year, Chinese police surrounded the village of Donglu, made famous among Catholics by an apparition of Our Lady in the early twentieth century, the official newspaper South China Morning Post reported. Police prevented pilgrims from joining with city residents for the celebration in honor of Our Lady. The forces … Read more
A Chinese boy was pronounced dead at a children’s hospital in Anhui Province (eastern China) but began to cry when he was about to be cremated, local media reported according to AFP news agency. Hospital sources told the official Xinhua news agency that the baby was less than a month old and … Read more