Word: internuncio
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...hostility being displayed these days cannot be spontaneous. There seems to be an organized attempt to disrupt the good relations which have existed so far between Christians and their [Hindu] countrymen." India's Committee of Catholic Bishops admits that the situation is causing "gravest anxiety," and the Apostolic Internuncio has taken up with the Indian government recent difficulties in obtaining visas for Catholic missionaries...
With other Chinese Catholics, Father Tung was herded on to the platform at a "protest" rally in Chungking last June. He was supposed to join in a public attack on the papal internuncio, Archbishop Anthony Riberi (since expelled from China-TIME, Sept. 17). Father Tung's conscience dictated a very different speech. Said...
...China cut the chief official link between the Vatican and Chinese Roman Catholics last week. Monaco-born Archbishop Anthony Riberi, 54, papal internuncio to China since 1946, was expelled for "espionage activities...
...longer safe in Red China. Riva and Yamaguchi are the first foreigners to be sentenced to death as counterrevolutionaries, while Bishop Martina is the first Catholic clergyman to be sentenced to life in prison. He is fairly big game, as acting representative in Peking for Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal internuncio for China, who is under house arrest in Nanking...
...been a brazen attempt to fool them into giving a fuzzy declaration that could be twisted to look like a breakaway from Rome. Meanwhile, as the Reds turned on the heat, signatures began sprouting all over China on petitions for an "Independent Catholic Church." Archbishop Anthony Riberi, the apostolic internuncio to China, decided that the time had come to take off the gloves...