2014-08-18 14:21:00

Matteo Ricci: what legacy?


(Vatican Radio ) During a press conference on board the plane flying back from Korea Pope Francis said he could not help but think of  the figure of  Matteo Ricci while flying over China. Veronica Scarisbrick speaks to Father Emmanuel Lim SJ about this charismatic Jesuit, one of the founders of the Jesuit China Mission who died in 1610, whose memory still lives on in China today.

This programme includes a passage from Matteo Ricci's diary : "..the work of evangelisation , of making Christians should be carried on both in Peking and in the Provinces, following methods both of a pacific nature and of cultural adaptation. Europeanism is to be shunned."...

Listen to a programme focusing on the figure of Matteo Ricci presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:








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