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Caption: Pope Francis and President Mauricio Funes Cartagena of El Salvador look at a reliquary containing a blood-stained piece of the vestment of Archbishop Oscar Romero during a private audience at the Vatican May 23. Archbishop Romero was wearing the vestment when he was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980. President Funes presented the reliquary as a gift. (CNS/Reuters)
Pope Francis and President Mauricio Funes Cartagena of El Salvador look at a reliquary containing a blood-stained piece of the vestment of Archbishop Oscar Romero during a private audience at the Vatican May 23. Archbishop Romero was wearing the vestment when he was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980. President Funes presented the reliquary as a gift. (CNS/Reuters)
With no bishop, Shanghai priests concerned about Masses, pilgrimages

By N.J. Viehland
Catholic News Service

MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- A Chinese priest who recently arrived in the Philippines said that, this year, he did not make his usual May trek up Sheshan hill outside Shanghai, where thousands of pilgrims offer special prayers to Mary, Help of Christians.

Speaking to Catholic News Service on the condition of anonymity, the priest said that, until he left China, Shanghai priests -- who currently have no bishop -- were still discussing how to proceed with the month's largest pilgrimage, May 24. Shanghai Bishop Jin Luxian died April 27; his Vatican-approved successor, Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin, is under house arrest.
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Caption: Pope Francis greets a girl while meeting the disabled during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 22. (CNS/Paul Haring)
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Editors: Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 43, No. 3 (May 23, 2013):

-- The new evangelization requires a new apologetics, one that takes seriously contemporary challenges to Christianity and eschews polemics in favor of dialogue, says the former head of the Vatican doctrinal congregation, retired U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada.

-- Pope Francis commemorates 40 years of dialogue with the Coptic Orthodox Church at a meeting with its leader, Pope Tawadros II.

-- Mary is a mother who helps Christians to grow, to confront life and to be free, says Pope Francis.

-- Cardinal Thomas C. Collins of Toronto urges Catholics to weigh carefully a proposal to open a major new casino in the city, saying it is unhealthy for people, charitable organizations and government to be "enslaved by the lure of easy gambling revenue."

-- The 2013 farm bill offers the opportunity to address outdated agriculture policies and help hungry people at home and abroad, say the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Service, Catholic Charities USA and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference.
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