SUMMARY:
- MORE THAN 22,000 BAPTISMS IN CHINA ON EASTER SUNDAY
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BOOK
ON BENEDICT XVI FOR THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS PONTIFICATE
Vatican
City, 24 April 2012 (VIS) - The "Osservatore Romano" and
the Italian newspaper "Il Sole e 24 Ore" are paying homage
to the Holy Father for the seventh anniversary of his election with a
book entitled "Benedict XVI, Theologian and Pontiff". The
volume is being distributed with today's edition of "Il Sole e
24 Ore" and will shortly be available in digital format on the
newspaper’s website, with addition multimedia content and English
and Spanish translations. The Spanish newspaper "La Razon"
will place the book on its own website on 26 April.
In
the prologue to the work Giovanni Maria Vian, director of the
"Osservatore Romano", explains that, for the Holy Father's
eighty-fifth birthday and the beginning of the eighth year of his
pontificate, it was decided to publish a book bringing together a
number of little-known texts on the figure of Benedict XVI. These
include a dialogue on secularism and religion between the philosopher
Armando Massarenti and the journalist Giuliano Ferrara, some
suggestions for reading the works of Joseph Ratzinger by the
historiographer Lucetta Scaraffia, and a chronological summary of the
life of "the theologian who became pontiff".
This
initiative, Vian writes, "aims above all to contribute to an
understanding of the person and works of an intellectual who has
dedicated, and continues to dedicate his life to the tireless search
for truth, engaging in continuous dialogue between faith and reason,
and using a language accessible to everyone".
MORE
THAN 22,000 BAPTISMS IN CHINA ON EASTER SUNDAY
Vatican
City, 24 April 2012 (VIS) - The Catholic news agency Fides has
reported that 22,104 people were baptised in China on Easter Sunday.
The statistics were collected by the Study Centre of Faith in the
Chinese province of He Bei. The newly-baptised Catholics, 75 per cent
of whom are adults, belong to 101 dioceses. In He Bei itself 4,410
people were baptised on Easter Day, 615 more than last year, while in
Hong Kong, which has more than 360,000 faithful, there were 3,500
baptisms.
In
evaluating these figures, it should be borne in mind that some
dioceses do not celebrate all their baptisms at Easter. For example,
in Shang Hai there were 379 Easter baptisms but the total figure
could exceed 1,500 by the end of the year. According to Sr. Li Guo
Shuang of the Study Center, "there are still some dioceses or
communities which, due to communication difficulties, have not yet
reported data to us. So we must emphasise that the figures are not
complete, they may still increase".
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