Shanghai’s Catholics are suffering. This week the legitimate Catholic bishop died at the age of 97, having spent more than 50 years in the aogai — Chinese gulag — and under house arrest. Bishop Joseph Fan Zhong-Liang, a Jesuit priest, was denied even in death the proper rituals due to a Catholic bishop. He died as he lived, in quiet, resolute refusal to swear allegiance to the politburo of Beijing rather than the pope of Rome.
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