Catholic father of five to lead New Zealand
The new prime minister of New Zealand, Bill English, is a practising Catholic. In 2008 he said: “It is very good for someone in public life to spend a minimum of an hour a week … going to Mass and hearing language like forgiveness, mercy, sinfulness, worship.”
Ordination is ‘slap in the face’ for Francis
An excommunicated bishop’s presence at two episcopal ordinations in China is a “slap in the face” for Pope Francis, Cardinal Joseph Zen has said.
