台主教团突获邀到教廷述职

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(1) 黄乐涛, 台主教团突获邀到教廷述职 再惹中梵建交联想. RFA, May 9, 2018.
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/ne ... encoding=simplified

(2) Huang Ya-shih and Evelyn Kao, Taiwan Bishops on ad limina visit to Vatican City, Central News Agency, May 9, 2018.
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201805090020.aspx

My comment:
(a) These two are about the only news reports on this topic -- one in Chinese and the other in English.
(b) quinquennial visit ad limina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinquennial_visit_ad_limina
("In the Roman Catholic Church, a quinquennial visit ad limina, more fully ad limina apostolorum or simply an ad limina visit, means the obligation of residential diocesan bishops and certain prelates with territorial jurisdiction (such as territorial abbots), of visiting the thresholds of the [tombs of the] Apostles, Saints Peter and Paul, and of meeting the pope") (brackets original)
(i) English dictionary:
* quinquennial (adj; etymology)
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/quinquennial
(ii) "Peter is said to have founded the [Catholic] Church in Rome with Paul"  en.wikipedia.org
(A) Saint Peter's tomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter%27s_tomb
(B) Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba ... l_Outside_the_Walls
(section 3 The Tomb of St Paul)

"The Walls"?  See Michael O'Loughlin, No, Internet, the Vatican Is Not a Walled City. Crux, Feb 19, 2016
https://cruxnow.com/church/2016/ ... -not-a-walled-city/
("Large walls do surround most of the Vatican. They're a medieval anachronism: Pope Leo IV built some of them in the 9th century to keep Church property safe from invading troops, while others are a bit newer, built in the 16th century as a sort of political statement about the power of the papacy")
(iii) Latin-English dictionary:
* crux (noun feminine): "cross"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crux
* apostolorum (n): "genitive plural of apostolus"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostolorum
   ^ apostolus (noun masculine; from Ancient Greek apóstolos, one who is sent, messenger, envoy, ambassador; apostle): "apostle"
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostolus
   ^ genitive case
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive_case
   (usually a noun; "Possessive * * * may be regarded as a subset of genitive construction")
* ad (preposition): "ad (+ accusative) (direction) toward
Usage notes[:] The word ad is an antithesis to ab [preposition for 'away from'] (just as in is to ex [preposition for 'out of']; in a progressive order of relation, ad denotes, first, the direction toward an object; then the reaching of or attaining to it; and finally, the being at or near it.)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ad
* in (preposition): "(+ ablative) in, at, on (space)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in
* limen (nou neuter): "threshold"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limen#Latin
(There is a table underneath showing lamina is accusative plural and that limine is ablative singular)
(iv) You may not know or be interested, but in law (in US, at both federal and state courts), there is motion in limine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_in_limine

How come there are ad limina and in limine? See Latin-English dictionary above. There are two (plural) thresholds, one each for St Peter's tomb and St Paul's tomb.