What is the Future of China-Vatican Relations?

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Friday, January 12, 2018

We have heard so many stories about the Church in China, about persecution and about an underground church, yet for Bishop Ignatius Wang, the retired Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, it’s not so simple and it’s not so hopeless. Deacon Pedro speaks with him about his vocation, the challenges being a Chinese Bishop in the United States and his thoughts about the Church in China.

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Deacon-structing Christmas: Had Jesus Not Been Born | Part 3

Monday, January 9, 2023

Deacon Pedro

For the last two weeks (part 1 and part 2) I’ve been trying to imagine what our world would be like had Jesus never been born. It’s easy to say that The Church would not exist or that we would have no Pope. There would be no priests, deacons, religious sisters or brothers, nor there […]

Deacon-structing Christmas: Had Jesus Not Been Born | Part 2

Monday, January 2, 2023

Deacon Pedro

Last week I was imagining a world without Christmas. That would mean no Christmas music and no Christmas movies. But a world without Jesus would mean much more to our popular culture. One of my favourite Broadway musicals is Les Miz. I never read the novel, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and wasn’t crazy about […]

Deacon-structing Christmas: Had Jesus not been born | Part 1

Monday, December 26, 2022

Deacon Pedro

I remember once, a Cuban friend who grew up in Cuba with no Christmas, telling me that she had never seen or heard of a Christmas tree before she left Cuba. But had Christ never been born, the implications would be much worse than not having Christmas trees. Just think of the music we’d be […]

Deacon-structing: When is the End of the World?

Monday, November 14, 2022

Deacon Pedro

Earlier this week I found myself listening to R.E.M.’s It’s the End of the World (although I much prefer the cover by Great Big Sea). It’s a good song and, while I’m not exactly sure what it’s about, I always think about it around this time of the year when all the Mass readings have […]

Encore SLHour: Religious Persecution and other fabulous conversations!

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Salt + Light Media

This week's guests: Marie-Claude Lalonde of Aid to the Church in Need, author Eleanor Bourg Nicholson, musician Daniel Oberreuter, and composer Dan Schutte.