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Catholic World News

Catholic theological institute to open in Vietnam

February 02, 2016

Vietnam’s bishops have announced that a theological institute will open in Ho Chi Minh City this coming September. The institute will offer courses in biblical and dogmatic theology.

When Communist forces took over the city, formerly known as Saigon, in 1975, they confiscated a pontifical college and other Catholic higher educational institutions.

“The opening of a new Catholic educational facility is a positive if surprising development in a country whose Communist rulers have always been reticent vis-à-vis the Church’s educational initiatives,” AsiaNews noted.

 

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Again Lent's austerity is interrupted as we solemnly keep a feast in honor of the Annunciation. The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord is a mystery that belongs to the temporal rather than to the sanctoral cycle in the Church's calendar. For the feast commemorates the most sublime moment in the…

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