A book published in Italy traces the story of the missionary bishop of Zhengzhou, the immediate predecessor of one of three recently appointed bishops in the People's Republic of China. Paul VI praised him for his extraordinary example of courage and fidelity to the Gospel in communist imprisonment and for the love he always kept alive for the flock that had been entrusted to him, even in exile.
In the Noughties, if I stayed in a hotel’s annexe I felt slighted. Back then you had to be in the main house. You were a nobody if you were demoted to an outbu