Dokument #1151008
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Additional information on the
above-mentioned subject could not be found among the sources
currently available to the DIRB in Ottawa. According to a 30 June
1994 letter from the Apostolic Nunciature in Ottawa, the DIRB
request for information has been forwarded to the competent office
of the Vatican. Any reply will be forwarded to you upon
receipt.
Attached please find two documents
mentioning the use of Latin within the Catholic Church in China.
These documents may be of interest to you.
According to a 1989 China Review
article, masses in China were still being conducted in Latin (Dec.
1989, 17). In 1992 the Director of the Canadian Conference of
Catholic Bishops Office of Missions reported that Chinese language
was being gradually introduced at masses, but Latin was still being
used by elderly Catholics and within the Church (China and
Ourselves Mar. 1992, 11). This information was corroborated by
a member of the Congregation des soeurs missionaires de
l'Immaculée Conception in Montréal who is familiar
with the situation of the Catholic Church in China (21 July 1991).
This source added that Latin users are mostly elderly Catholics
priests in their seventies or eighties who were trained by the
Vatican (ibid.). Further information could not be obtained.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
China and Ourselves [Toronto].
March 1992. Vol. 17, No. 1. Lucien Casterman. "L'Eglise de Chine :
une Eglise vivante, une Eglise souffrante."
China Review [Hong Kong].
December 1989. Brenda Christian. "Faith An Opiate or an
Analgesic."
Member of the Congrégation des
soeurs missionnaires de l'Immaculée Conception,
Montréal. 21 July 1994. Telephone interview.
China and Ourselves [Toronto].
March 1992. Vol. 17, No. 1. Lucien Casterman. "L'Eglise de Chine :
une Eglise vivante, une Eglise souffrante," pp. 10-14.
China Review [Hong Kong].
December 1989. Brenda Christian. "Faith-An Opiate or an Analgesic,"
pp. 16-18.