Posted on 01/03/2002 8:04:25 AM PST by Notwithstanding
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CHINA -- Thousands of people defied a police ban Wednesday to attend the funeral in China of the man recognized by the Vatican, though not the Chinese government, as the bishop of Beijing, a religious news agency in Vatican City said.
Monsignor Mattia Pei Shangde, 83, a Roman Catholic priest who spent time in labor camps, died of kidney failure last week at a hospital in Zhangjiakou, near Beijing. Pei had been under house arrest for illegal religious practices.
Up to 3,000 people attended his funeral in Zhangjiakou, according to Fides, the news agency of the Vatican's missionary arm.
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No wonder they're scared. Nice to be taken seriously for a change.
US Catholics are only slightly ahead of the GOP when it comes to realizing what they've lost and how they've been had.
Not to worry, we're waking up.
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